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Retendous 

The act of creating a word and using the word( the word would be retendous too)in presence of someone who believes itself to be a smart-ass with a great vocabulary to later on finding them using that word and then telling them that it is not a real word that is present in a dictionary other than urbandictionary proving that they are just an ass.
Guy annoyed by smart-ass: That party was so retendous!
...hours later...

smart-ass: Man, I had the most retendolous time in *insert random bar here*

Guy annoyed by smart-ass: That is not a real word...

smart-ass: but I heard you say it a few hours ago

Guy annoyed by smart-ass: i just made that word up to prove you are an ass
Retendous by toxkapownd September 25, 2010

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!
pretentious prick by Zecker117 November 17, 2015

pretenductive 

(adjective) when you pretend to be productive but in fact you are just procrastinating as usual
Q: Where's Emily?

A: Oh, she's in the library being pretenductive again.
pretenductive by Danlod November 10, 2016

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.

Pretendum 

Usable as bot an adjective or noun, Pretendum refers specifically to adolescent girls who either dumb themselves down in general in order to impress a member of the opposite sex, or who on certain occasions, will just play dumb for attention from their peers.
adj.

Christine: She's so acting like Paris Hilton just to impress Greg!
Jacqui: Like, I know! What a pretendum bitch!

n.

Christine: I hate how whenever they ask her to spell words in class that she just says the wrong thing on purpose and does that annoying little giggle thing afterwards!
Jacqui: Yeah, me too. I don't even know why she wants the attentions so bad...
Christine: I do, she's a fucking pretendum.
Pretendum by Weight-and-Sea March 24, 2009

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."

- - -

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
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