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artsy-craftsy

adj. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

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arty

adj. showily imitative of art or artists

inflated, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding

adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da

adj. affectedly genteel

jumped-up

adj. (British informal) upstart

upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche, nouveau riche, parvenue

adj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

sesquipedalian

adj. given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

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arty-crafty

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