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SNOBBERY |
Pretension |
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DANDYISM |
Pretension to fashionability |
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BRAGGADOCIO |
Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension. |
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ARROGATIVE |
Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance. |
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PRETENCE |
The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption;
pretension. |
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CHARLATANICAL |
Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension;
empirical; pretentious; quackish. |
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PLAIN |
Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show
or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. |
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PRETENTIOUS |
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than
is one's; presuming; assuming. |
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DISSIMULATION |
The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false
appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. |
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KNOW-ALL |
One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension
to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical. |
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MANSION |
The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence:
Any house of considerable size or pretension. |
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QUACK |
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension;
used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a
quack doctor. |
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DON |
A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence;
especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English
universities. |
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RECEDE |
To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to
relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a
demand or proposition. |