pretentious 

Behaving in an attention-seeking manner via presenting oneself on the surface as being intelligent, provocative, important, avant-garde, humorous or significant, yet harboring ulterior motives, typically involving some form of personal gratification or material gain (e.g. advancement in social status, career, wealth, etc.).

Note that using this word is often conflated to be a pretentious act in and of itself, as this word is frequently used as a way to easily discredit people, works of art, ideas or statements while simultaneously boosting one's own status.

"I used to think they were a smart, edgy, fun group of people to hang out with... but as soon as they realized I didn't have anything to offer them in terms of getting more publicity or a book deal or an art gallery gig, they stopped talking to me. I don't even know why I try to be their friend anymore! Pretentious twits."

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Dude #1: "I really like the Three Stooges!"
Dude #2: "Whatever, they're so pretentious."
Dude #1: "Do you even know what that word means?"

pretentious by Buster Foodcube December 15, 2011

Pretentious Douche 

To be an asshole without actually knowing jack shit about your topic

Alex Stroube is the most pretentious douche I've ever met.

Pretentious Douche by SimplyShrimp February 3, 2015

Pretentious Douchebag 

A person obsessed with their sense of self worth. Characteristically they believe they are greater than other people and belittle others to gain status and feel powerful.
These people can almost never spell, drink too much, party with 'boiz' or are generally just stupid.

That Luke Sugars guy is a Pretentious Douchebag.

Pretentious Douchebag by Chuck13s March 18, 2011

Pretentious Bitch

An annoying, usually psuedo-intellectual, skank or artist who listens to alternative music genres and thinks she's better than everyone. In order to maintain whatever self-esteem she has, she criticizes everyone and everything she sees, but in a very passive aggressive way, as to avoid open conflict. If she does fall into a verbal conflict her only defense mechanism is to rattle off random bullshit that makes no sense. Because her target doesn't know wtf she's talking about, she feels she is above the whole thing.

I hate pretentious bitches.

Pretentious Bitch by WHOknewHOZ April 4, 2011

pretentious hipster 

oh man... OH MAN! OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN! whoever wrote that definition before me. THAT is pretentious hipster talk. Hipsters are never okay and they don't actually have opinions, obnoxious or otherwise. They merely conform to unpopular fashions. That's it. That's all. It's a self-entitled way to feign social awkwardness that people with their total lack of worthwhile qualities and talent would be feeling as genuine outcasts if they didn't secretly believe themselves superior and ironically hilarious. In this way, it's also an attempt to cash in on attention using geek chic. They don't care about winning arguments because they don't have beliefs except the above. Pretentious people try to sound smarter than they are, e.g. by making dissonantly unnecessary references to counter culture figures, but hipsters are so far beyond pretentious that they think appreciation of meaningless t-shirt slogans is enough to elevate them to social icon status. This makes the phrase pretentious hipster so redundant that it should just be shortened to hipster, except when describing what hipsters talk about; ie pretentious hipster bullshit, such as "I met that indie rock singer. She's an argyle superstar." A hipster is a therefore a psychological trainwreck that should be avoided until he/she inevitably ruins itself.

1: Are you going to use Scorsese references in your pretentious hipster bullshit this weekend?

2: No, film is too mainstream. I'm just sucking fame's dick in a general way until someone tells me a new way to seem unique.

pretentious hipster by toot-swat plan November 22, 2010

pretentuoso 

individual who prides them self off of being able to do a seemingly unimportant task ridiculously well. this otherwise meaningless skill is showcased by the individual on almost a daily basis and can range from being able to spell a word correctly, pronounce a word correctly, or have some knowledge of the root of a word. obviously this person conducts them self in a somewhat grandiose manner and secretly looks down upon the people they are "innocently" correcting to elate their own ego.

john: why dont you eat normal snacks?
amanda: i always eat almonds. thats normal.
john: its ALL-mond with a long A, NOT AL-mond.
amanda: ya thats what i said, almond, and later im going to go make myself a sangwich.
john: a what? a sanGwich?
amanda: yes you pretentuoso a sangwich

pretentuoso by zepinktroll September 8, 2010

Pretentipus 

Pretentipus is an archaic word that is embellished with at least four meanings depending on context. It was created when a pretentious person misspelled the word 'pretentious' as 'pretentipus' and his pet parrot then proceeded to call him a pussy.

1. Pretentious Pussy. (This is the most common meaning of the word and is most frequently used.)

2. Bicycle.

3. Cops; police; law enforcement etc.

4. Open; unlock; unfasten etc.

1. ''You know that girl Jessica? She is such a pretentipus!''

2. ''Hey, man, I was thinking of going up to my grandpa's mansion tomorrow, any chance I can borrow your pretentipus?''

3. ''Shit, dawg, we gots ta get outta here dem pretentipus iz comin' yo!''

4. ''If you don't pretentipus this door right now I swear on my dead mother's grave I will smash your teeth out and mouth-fuck you!''

Pretentipus by Henry Krinkle's Stomach Cancer January 6, 2013