• JustAnIdiotPlsIgnore@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Pretentious - attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

    Yes.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      8 days ago

      You and I have wildly different associations with this construct.

      To me it sounds like silly phrasing. Just another version of “doth protest”