English-Spanish translations for pretentious

• pretencioso
  Me parece un poco pretencioso que el señor Verhofstadt (si todavía está ahí) le diga a la señora Merkel que deje de hablar del euro. 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.
  No es histórico por una serie de elementos pretenciosos como la estrategia política anual o la gestión por actividad. Not historic because of a number of pretentious things such as the APS - annual political strategy - or ABB - activity based budgeting.
• macanudo

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