pretentiousness
n. 矯飾; 炫耀; 自負; 狂妄
If you say that someone or something is pretentious, you mean that they try to seem important or significant, but you do not think that they are.
His response was full of pretentious nonsense...
他的答覆是一派荒謬的虛誇之詞。
This pub was of a very different type, smaller, less pretentious.
這個酒吧風格獨特,面積不大,比較低調。
1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
2. the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
He has a tendency towards pretentiousness.
他總是想表現得自命不凡。
Such pretentiousness cannot reflect truth but is an obstacle to truth.
這種裝腔作勢的東西,不能反映真理,而是妨害真理的.
This is not your exclusive unrivalled skill. What do you base your pretentiousness on?
這又不是你的獨家絕活兒, 你憑什麼拿糖呀?
She railed against hypocrisy, pretentiousness and self - regard, while lauding modesty, fidelity, decency, and achievement.
她不喜歡虛偽,矯飾和自大, 而崇尚謙遜, 忠誠, 正派和成就.