pretentious (adj.)
- affected
- ambitious
- arrogant
- artificial
- arty
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- classy
- convoluted
- declamatory
- elaborate
- elaborated
- elevated
- exaggerated
- extravagant
- fancy
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flashy
- flossy
- flowery
- fulsome
- garish
- gassy
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- haughty
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- high-toned
- highfalutin
- highfaluting
- histrionic
- hoity-toity
- imposing
- inflated
- insincere
- la-di-da
- labyrinthine
- lofty
- lurid
- magniloquent
- mannered
- meretricious
- mincing
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overdone
- overnice
- overrefined
- overwrought
- pedantic
- pompous
- precious
- rhetorical
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- showy
- snobbish
- snotty
- sonorous
- splashy
- stagy
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- swank
- swollen
- tall
- theatrical
- tony
- tortuous
- tumid
- turgid
- unnatural
- utopian
- vainglorious
- visionary
- windy