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pretentious Meaning in Punjabi ( pretentious ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਇਸ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਦਾ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?)



ਵਿਖਾਵਾ, ਬਹੁਤ ਹੰਕਾਰੀ, ਗੁਸਤਾਖੀ, ਬੇਈਮਾਨ, ਝੂਠੇ ਦਾਅਵੇ, ਹੰਕਾਰੀ, ਦਿਖਾਵਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ, ਬਹੁਤ ਕਲਪਨਾਸ਼ੀਲ, ਪਖੰਡੀ,

Adjective:

ਵਿਖਾਵਾ, ਗੁਸਤਾਖੀ, ਬੇਈਮਾਨ, ਝੂਠੇ ਦਾਅਵੇ, ਹੰਕਾਰੀ, ਪਖੰਡੀ,

pretentious's Usage Examples:

pretentiousness, pomposity, social hypocrisy, collective denial, or hollow ostentatiousness.


It's pretentious and kind of stupid.


Although his interest went with the heavy metal genre, he unpretentiously participated in the pop music scene in Iceland, participating in many.


Wignall, a respected Port Arthur architect, it is one of the most pretentiously designed Bungaloid structures in town.


essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".


many horror genre critics were more positive, viewing the film as unpretentiously entertaining.


surviving works of art, due to an association with unpretentiousness, reticence and timidity; artists also wanted to distance themselves from erotic art"s.


dichotomy of the argument into "philistine" vs "pretentious" and the reductiveness of the term "slow cinema".


It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare.


book of a very biting nature by Voltaire, directed against pretentious pedants of science in the person of Maupertuis, the President of the Royal Academy.


pretentious item is an Englished version of Puccini"s "Un bel di" ending prettily with a romantic crisis when Prince Charming walks in tactfully on the correct.


especially in relation to genre fiction; he found it to be full of affectations and pretentious wordplay and lacking in strong storytelling.


However the tone of the book is less sympathetic to students, showing the pretentiously named title character and his circle as unprincipled and shallow rather.



Synonyms:

hoity-toity, high-flown, parvenue, highfaluting, upstart, arty, jumped-up, sententious, portentous, pompous, grandiose, parvenu, tasteless, nouveau-riche, inflated, overblown, artsy-craftsy, pontifical, arty-crafty, high-sounding, la-di-da, highfalutin, sesquipedalian, hifalutin, grandiloquent,

Antonyms:

appetizing, tasty, elegant, unpretentious, tasteful,

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