Learn English – an adjective for somone who displays ‘fake’ gravitas

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Words like insincere, over-earnest, do not do justice to the type of word I need. Example sentence: The president of the company read his well crafted speech but it fell flat because of his obvious “———“.

Best Answer

Pretentious is the first word that grabs me. (Please use the noun form, pretentiousness, to fill in the blank. )

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

Synonyms include:

affected, ostentatious, showy; overambitious, pompous, artificial, inflated, overblown, high-sounding, flowery, grandiose, elaborate, extravagant, flamboyant, ornate, grandiloquent, magniloquent, sophomoric;

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