English-Finnish translations for pretentious

• mahtaileva
  Minusta Guy Verhofstadt (en tiedä, onko hän vielä kuulemassa tätä) oli hieman mahtaileva kehottaessaan Merkeliä lopettamaan puheet eurosta. I find it a bit pretentious of Mr Verhofstadt (if he is still there) to tell Mrs Merkel to shut up talking about the euro.
• näyttävä

Definition of pretentious

• Intended to impress others; ostentatious
• Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction

Examples

• Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
• Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.

Related words

• unpretentious
• pretentiousness
• pretentiously
• unpretentiousness
• unpretentiously