Pretentious is valid Scrabble Word

Is pretentious a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for PRETENTIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing)
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed
Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one\'s; presuming; assuming.
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
intended to attract notice and impress others
(of a display) tawdry or vulgar

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

characterized by pretension; as making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing); expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature

Words related to PRETENTIOUS

fantoosh14 pretensive15 pretentiously18 pretentiousness17

Words that contain PRETENTIOUS

pretentiously18 unpretentious15 pretentiousness17 unpretentiously20 unpretentiousne17 unpretentiousness19 pretentiousnesses19 unpretentiousnesses21

How to use PRETENTIOUS in a sentence

Only one was a little more pretentious in appearance, but that, too, had attached to it its garden and chicken yard.
Externally he is pretentious, booming, noisy, important.
This was of rough crude exterior, but the inside was comparatively pretentious and ablaze with lights.
It is in truth only a pretentious form of being without settled opinions of our own, and without any desire to settle them.
His glasses on their broad pretentious ribbon banged against his stomach.
I have seen plays presented in worse style at much more pretentious theaters in Paris.
Parthia, compared to these pretentious empires, was retiring and modest.
There were no pretentious houses north of Forty-second Street.
It is pretentious, imposing, in bad taste, without simplicity and a real sanctity.
At the portals of the most pretentious of these houses he knocked and was admitted.

Altogether he was the most pretentious and grotesque-looking man that it was possible to behold.
As it is, I must confess my utter inability to wade through that pretentious and dreary achievement.
There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
For instance, pillars and looped-up curtains painted on flat walls, with pretentious shadows, having no reference to the real direction of the light.
It is crowded with types of pretentious and abnormal womanhood, which it caricatures very effectively.
He had laughed at too many pretentious mandarins to hope to escape their resentment.
It was a pretentious white two-story building, with bright-blue wooden shutters, the admiration of all the little circle at Wolf Point.
The marshal had followed it to a rather pretentious Mexican rancho, where there was a small store kept.
Since my advent in Texas I had been witness to the growth of Fort Worth from a straggling village in the spring of 1866 to quite a pretentious town in the fall of 1874.
It was quite a pretentious affair, built of hewed logs, and consisted of two large rooms with a hallway between, a gallery on three sides, and a kitchen at the rear.
The more pretentious dealers kept brass bands to attract the crowd.
On what he is able to turn over to his children every month they keep a rather pretentious home in Fenton, though they live a full mile away from their father.
They came into a more pretentious street, where trade, it could be surmised, flourished by day.
This was of a rough crude exterior, but the inside was comparatively pretentious, and ablaze with lights.

Similar words containing TENTIOU without suffix s and without prefix pre

abstentious13 contentious13 sententious11 contentiously18 pretentiously18 sententiously16 uncontentious15 unpretentious15 contentiousness17 pretentiousness17 sententiousness15 unpretentiously20 unpretentiousne17 contentiousnesses19 unpretentiousness19 sententiousnesses17 pretentiousnesses19 unpretentiousnesses21

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