Pretentious
Crossword Clue and Answers
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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in The Guardian Quick.
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Publications
- The Guardian Quick - Wednesday, 17 Nov 2021
- The Sun Cryptic - Sunday, 18 Jul 2021
- The Sun Cryptic - Friday, 26 Mar 2021
- The Sun Cryptic - Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021
- The New York Times Crossword - Tuesday, 10 Dec 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 1 Dec 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Tuesday, 16 Jul 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 10 Feb 2019
- The New York Times Mini - Tuesday, 13 Feb 2018
- The New York Times Crossword - Monday, 7 Aug 2017
- The New York Times Crossword - Wednesday, 8 Mar 2017
Crossword Answers
4 letters
ARTY
Showily imitative of art or artists
5 letters
SHOWY
Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series"
6 letters
CHICHI
Someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way
UPPISH
(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
ORNATE
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
TOOTOO
LADIDA
7 letters
EXALTED
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"
STILTED
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
8 letters
AFFECTED
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
LAHDIDAH
9 letters
HIFALUTIN
Affectedly genteel
BOMBASTIC
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
HIGHTONED
HIGHFLOWN
FLATULENT
Generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal
10 letters
HOITYTOITY
11 letters
HIGHFALUTIN
Affectedly genteel
12 letters
OSTENTATIOUS
Intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"