Dizionario Polacco - Inglese

pretensjonalny in inglese:

What do you think about my new jacket? It's awfully pretentious and makes you look fat!

if someone or something is pretentious, they try to seem more important, intelligent, or high class than they really are in order to be impressive

a pretentious film

Her nature is neither affected nor pretentious.

My boss is really courteous but sometimes he is pretentious

an ostentatious display of wealth

They criticized the ostentatious lifestyleof their leaders.

He can’t really like all those boring arty films.

Anything too arty is a risk of making the picture feel disorienting; simpler, more straight-forward shots work far better.

What a grandiose palace, a prince must have lived here.

grandiose scheme/plan/idea

Theatre often makes grandiose claims about changing the world.

They're trying to compensate for low self-esteem with grandiose.