Pretentious
Antonyms of PRETENTIOUS
- unimpaired, unhurt, servile, overmodest, introverted, unembellished, easy, unconfident, deprecating, facile, condemned, sheepish, genuine, acquiescent, minimized, Denounced, mousy, unaggressive, compliant, unchanged, retiring, yielding, bashful, timid, uninjured, criticized, diffident, subdued, modest, cringing, passive, debased, unobtrusive, shrinking, unassertive, unconceited, meek, played down, reserved, submissive, true, unpretentious, ok, humiliated, lowly, real, deferential, quiet, homely, understated, humble, shy, reduced, Depreciated, cowering, unexaggerated.
Examples of usage:
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The engineer was driven up to where they were standing, and he jumped off the car among the men who were to work under him with rather a pretentious air. "Castle Richmond" by Anthony Trollope
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Chapter V We were left delightfully to ourselves in this pretentious country mansion with the soul of a villa. "The Damned" by Algernon Blackwood
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They passed spacious buildings, and came to those less pretentious in style. "Dawn" by Mrs. Harriet A. Adams
