Pretentiously
False
"She was only being pretentious, claiming she'd visited all these great places.""She dominated the conversation with her pretentious theories about rock music, but it was obvious to everyone that she had no idea what she was talking about."--"Quid pro quo, Mr. Colt.""What does that mean?""It means I'm pretentious." (National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, 1993)
The word pretentious means, according to Merriam-Webster, "expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature."In everyday terms, it can mean pompous, snobby, showy and ostentatious.In a sentence:Her disdain towards the lives of the "common folk" seemed to me to extremely pretentious.
humility, a humble heart, not self seeking.
ostentatious or pretentious work well...
The old man was a very pretentious fellow.
The Yiddish word for pretentious is "feygelekh."
To get pretentious
pseud
pretend
I would describe it as pretentious gobbledygook.
Pretentiously
False
She liked to pretend that she was a famous actress, but everyone knew she was just being pretentious.
Intellectually or socially pretentious.
pretentious person