Someone who throws the word around precariously as if somehow to be better than the other. A hypocrite, heavy flattery and an overbearing need to fit in with cliques.
by Boring Payne March 2, 2010
Get the Pretentious mug.Describes a type of person, someone you could end up dating or in a friendship with. The type of person that SEEMS really outgoing, independant, confident, and all that sort of stuff at first, but as a few months go by you realize that they are a life-sucking, clingy, insecure shell of a human being that defines their entire worth through whoever they are with at the moment. I loathe to think I will ever meet another pretendependant woman EVAR.
Neal: Hey man, are you still seeing that chick Gloria?
Bob: Nah man, after a month she got all clingy, just another pretendependant psycho chick!
Bob: Nah man, after a month she got all clingy, just another pretendependant psycho chick!
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The act of being pretentious with no merit or using lies or pretend to back up a pretentious statement.
by Jackola February 18, 2009
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A straight girl who is pretending to be a lesbian. Pretendbians are usually doing this for cool points because being a lesbian becomes hip amongst their peers.
A straight girl who is pretending to be a lesbian. Pretendbians are usually doing this for cool points because being a lesbian becomes hip amongst their peers.
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Get the Pretendbian mug.A person who claims to be a fan of Folk Legend Bob Dylan, but in actuality they know and like a few songs and are quite unaware of the real genius that is Dylan. They also use this love and faux knowledge of Bob Dylan to seem cool and hip in certain settings.
How a Pretentious Dylan Lover came to like Bob Dylan can be explained in a number of ways. A boy they liked could have played a Dylan song on the guitar, or they could have seen Watchmen. What ever the reason they have normally only been aware of Dylan for a few weeks and want every one to know that they know and like Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan!
A Pretentious Dylan Lover will be excited about a new Bob Dylan album, or tour, where as everyone else knows there is nothing to be excited about. A Bob Dylan song could come on the radio and a Pretentious Dylan Lover would be unaware that the song is by Bob Dylan- that is how most Pretentious Dylan Lover are in fact found out.
How a Pretentious Dylan Lover came to like Bob Dylan can be explained in a number of ways. A boy they liked could have played a Dylan song on the guitar, or they could have seen Watchmen. What ever the reason they have normally only been aware of Dylan for a few weeks and want every one to know that they know and like Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan!
A Pretentious Dylan Lover will be excited about a new Bob Dylan album, or tour, where as everyone else knows there is nothing to be excited about. A Bob Dylan song could come on the radio and a Pretentious Dylan Lover would be unaware that the song is by Bob Dylan- that is how most Pretentious Dylan Lover are in fact found out.
by DJ Bojangles September 20, 2009
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1. A word that is often abused by pseudo-intellectuals.
2. Used to arrogantly display one's own pretentious tendencies by criticizing masterly works or people (e.g. art-rock bands--see. Radiohead)
3. Evokes strong evidence of hypocrisy in one's nature.
4. A word that, once applied, unfairly destroys geniuses and their works with one swift and cheap movement of affectation.
1. A word that is often abused by pseudo-intellectuals.
2. Used to arrogantly display one's own pretentious tendencies by criticizing masterly works or people (e.g. art-rock bands--see. Radiohead)
3. Evokes strong evidence of hypocrisy in one's nature.
4. A word that, once applied, unfairly destroys geniuses and their works with one swift and cheap movement of affectation.
I am not pretentious and I make no claims to a position of merit, and therefore I don't demand that you agree with me.
by Limey August 11, 2004
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