adj. affectedly genteel

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. showily imitative of art or artists

adj. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

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"

adj. (British informal) upstart

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

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

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