pretentious

pretentious
    adj 1: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often
           undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious
           country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious
           scholarly edition" [ant: {unpretentious}]
    2: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an
       ostentatious sable coat" [syn: {ostentatious}, {pretentious}]
       [ant: {unostentatious}, {unpretending}, {unpretentious}]
    3: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: {ostentatious},
       {pretentious}]
    

Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
   {Pretend}.]
   Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is
   one's; presuming; assuming. -- {Pre*ten"tious*ly}, adv. --
   {Pre*ten"tious*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "pretentious":
      Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected,
      ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big,
      big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory,
      elaborate, elaborated, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated,
      extravagant, fancy, feigned, flamboyant, flaming, flashy,
      flaunting, flossy, flowery, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy,
      grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high and mighty,
      high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-hat, high-sounding,
      high-swelling, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, histrionic,
      hoity-toity, hyperelegant, imposing, inflated, inkhorn, insincere,
      la-di-da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent,
      maniere, mannered, meretricious, mincing, orotund, ostentatious,
      overacted, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant,
      overinvolved, overnice, overrefined, overwrought, peacockish,
      peacocky, pedantic, pompous, precieuse, precieux, precious, put-on,
      rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy,
      snobbish, snotty, sonorous, splashy, stagy, stilted, studied,
      superficial, swank, swollen, tall, theatrical, tony, too-too,
      tortuous, tumid, turgid, unnatural, utopian, vainglorious,
      vaunting, visionary, windy