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pretentious

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

ostentatious

adj. intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"

kitsch, ostentatious

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid

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

kitsch, ostentatious, pretentious

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

flamboyant, aureate, showy, florid

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

rhetorical

adj. concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"

expressive

adj. characterized by expression; "a very expressive face"

dandified, dandyish, foppish

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

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

arrogant, chesty, self-important

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid

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

pretentious

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

flamboyant, aureate, showy, florid

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

baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

elaborate, intricate

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

gaudy, flashy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

tasteless, in poor taste

adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste

barbaric

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

camp, campy

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

indelicate

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

unpretentious

adj. lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor"

plain, simple, modest, unostentatious

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

plain

adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

unostentatious, unpretentious

adj. not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance"

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