a contemptibly obnoxious person who attempts to impress others by acting of greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than he/she is actually possesses.
I don't appreciate how much you are being a pretentious jerk at dinner with my family.
My boss is such a pretentious jerk!
My boss is such a pretentious jerk!
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The state or act of being pretentious - affecting an air of superiority or culture where none truly exists.
"The latest discovery of Jane Austen's unprinted masterpiece, 'Pointlessness and Pretentiosity', brings together the dramatic cycle with a fitting juxtaposition of anagnorisis and perepetaea, providing the quintessential climax and denouement if you will, to a genre that is already fucking full of shit to be honest."
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by HMB March 27, 2003
Get the pretentiosity mug.When the temperature in a conference or meeting room is turned way down to ensure that no one will be able to nod off during a meeting.
Man, is the temperature in that room hosed again? My fingers were numb by the end of that staff meeting!
Nah, I saw them jack the temperature down about 20 degrees right before the meeting started. Bob will lull everyone to sleep unless they make it a polarpoint presentation.
Nah, I saw them jack the temperature down about 20 degrees right before the meeting started. Bob will lull everyone to sleep unless they make it a polarpoint presentation.
by jigsawz67 March 19, 2011
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Get the Presentating mug.Presentaion:/ˌprɛz ənˈteɪ ʃən, ˌpri zɛn-/ Set number of agonizing minutes of exclusive divided attention (divided among you & your lousy slides, facebook, youtube, email, myspace, text messages, chats + other cool websites and iphone apps) intended for explaining to a group of unwilling students what took you 3 weeks to partially understand and one night to put on powerpoint.
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Get the Presentation mug.The pretentious E is often added to the end of words in place names to give a false sense of charm and history to an otherwise soulless, corporate-built craphole of a neighborhood, apartment complex, or shopping center.
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