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PROtentious

Professionally pretentious.

adj. Its a spoonerism, a combination of two words to make some shit up...
dude, have you ever watched six feet under?
yeah, bro. its good, but the director allan ball thinks hes intellectually above all of us. ooooh, a story about funeral homes, and death, youre sooo coool.

theres a song by tal bachman "shes so high above me", that everyone thinks is sung by everclear. its not.
the bitch in the song is protentious.
by ducty December 29, 2011
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pretentious prick

Someone who boasts about their accomplishments when in fact they have nothing to boast about or when a man is hitting on a woman and lies about how big his penis is or how good he is in bed.
Oh, so he calls himself god?! Pretentious prick!
by Zecker117 November 17, 2015
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pretentious cunt

Someone who thinks and acts like they're better than most people and have usually forgotten their roots and where they came from.
by Urban street roamer August 9, 2016
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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?"
by Buster Foodcube December 15, 2011
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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.
by SimplyShrimp February 3, 2015
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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.
by Chuck13s March 18, 2011
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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.
by WHOknewHOZ April 4, 2011
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