pretentious

1 The premise of these books sounds pretentious, but his work is rich, down to earth, bemused and, as a bonus, hilarious.

2 It's so pretentious, so snootily "The New York Times just adores the cinema," I can almost feel the terrorists hating us from here.

3 “I’m always happy to take down pretentious writers on my show because I feel like that’s only fair,” he said.

4 He seems pretentious, right off, and that always sends a red flag my way.

5 Like their idols, the teens are romantic and earnest, confused and occasionally pretentious.

6 It’s a sturdy, uncomplicated set of vintage-style soul jazz, recorded in one of New York’s least pretentious clubs, possibly as an afterthought.

7 Kat’s editor back in Chicago makes the same kind of pretentious sucking sounds.

8 I am aware how pretentious this all sounds, but I don’t care.

9 Why does Rachel give this strange, pretentious guy, with his tweed jacket, his French philosophy book, and his knowledge of Coleridge, a second look?

10 "Many have called us the worst kind of self-satisfied, pretentious time wasters — creating our art while others die. Sometimes I harbor these same doubts myself," one puppeteer admits.

11 “Leto Legend” isn’t campy and avoids being pretentious; it’s nicely balanced by LePine’s wry humor, and it wraps up with a satisfying rush.

12 He's so pretentious!

瞧他那副自命不凡的样儿！

13 Rob originally wanted a 50-piece string orchestra, but I convinced him a string quartet was not only cheaper but more pretentious as well!

14 I don't want to sound pretentious, but it makes the sculpture seem almost alive.

我不想说的自命不凡，但是，它使雕塑几乎活了起来。

15 He's a living repository of everything we find most off-putting about the French: arrogant, pretentious, lazy, often inebriated, and – he assures us – incredibly good in bed.

16 She recalled an episode in which a pair of pretentious brothers attempt, futilely, to infiltrate the most exclusive room of a spa resort.

17 By now we know what we are going to get from an Ondaatje novel: A moody, murky, lightly pretentious and mostly nonlinear investigation of lives and stories that harbor tantalizing gaps.

18 In the animated series “We Bare Bears,” which often cleverly satirized trendy millennial life in California, we find the pretentious Honey Wasabi Gummies.

19 "I really had no idea what I was talking about. It was really kind of pretentious," Simon said.

20 “Your show is pretentious and not funny enough, you need more jokes on this page.”

1 虚伪

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2 自夸的

vain conceited spread-eagle vapouring

3 虚饰的

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4 自负

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5 虚夸的

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6 虚饰

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7 做作

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8 矫饰

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9 矫饰的

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10 狂妄

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11 自命不凡的

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12 造作

preciously pretension

13 虚夸

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14 自命不凡

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15 做作的

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16 捏造的

fictitious trumped-up mendacious

17 虚伪的

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18 自负的

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19 自我标榜

self-advertisement self-glorification

20 狂妄的

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21 炫耀的

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22 炫耀

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23 捏造

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24 自夸

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