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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, pretentious

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

ostentatious, pretentious

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

bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid

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

ostentatious, pretentious

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

aureate, florid, flamboyant

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

rhetorical

adj. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"

expressive

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

dandified, dandyish, foppish

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

grandiloquent, overblown, 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"

bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, 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"

aureate, florid, flamboyant

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

baroque, Baroque

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

elaborate, luxuriant

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

sporty

adj. appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport

barbaric

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

brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, 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, off-color, off-colour

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"

modest

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, unpretending

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

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