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  • 1 publicitario

    adj.
    publicity, advertising.
    * * *
    1 advertising
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 advertising executive
    \
    anuncio publicitario (gen) advertisement, advert 2 (de televisión, radio) advert, commercial
    corte publicitario commercial break
    * * *
    publicitario, -a
    1.
    ADJ advertising antes de s, publicity antes de s
    2.
    SM / F advertising agent, advertising executive
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo advertising (before n)
    * * *
    = promotional, advertising.
    Ex. Many publishers seem fixated on the term 'acquisitions librarian' for promotional mailings.
    Ex. New advertising ploys are also being tried to promote the greater use of audiobooks.
    ----
    * anuncio publicitario = ad (advertisement).
    * anuncio publicitario de la radio = sound bite, radio spot.
    * anuncio publicitario de un libro = advertising blurb.
    * anuncio publicitario por radio = radio commercial, radio spot, sound bite, radio commercial.
    * anuncio publicitario por televisión = television commercial, television spot.
    * ardid publicitario = publicity ploy, advertising ploy.
    * banderola publicitaria = banner ad, banner advertisement.
    * banner publicitario = banner ad, banner advertisement.
    * bombo publicitario = media hype.
    * campaña publicitaria = advertising campaign, publicity campaign.
    * cancioncilla de anuncio publicitario = jingle.
    * cartelera publicitaria = hoarding.
    * compañía publicitaria = advertising firm.
    * dibujante publicitario = commercial artist.
    * dirigible publicitario = advertising blimp.
    * eslogan publicitario = sales pitch.
    * estrategia publicitaria = sales pitch.
    * frase publicitaria = catchphrase.
    * globo publicitario = advertising balloon.
    * histeria publicitaria = media hype.
    * hoja publicitaria = flyer [flier, -USA].
    * reclamaciones publicitarias = advertising claim.
    * rollo publicitario = sales pitch, product pitch.
    * sensacionalismo publicitario = media hype.
    * sintonía de anuncio publicitario = jingle.
    * valla publicitaria = billboard, hoarding.
    * * *
    - ria adjetivo advertising (before n)
    * * *
    = promotional, advertising.

    Ex: Many publishers seem fixated on the term 'acquisitions librarian' for promotional mailings.

    Ex: New advertising ploys are also being tried to promote the greater use of audiobooks.
    * anuncio publicitario = ad (advertisement).
    * anuncio publicitario de la radio = sound bite, radio spot.
    * anuncio publicitario de un libro = advertising blurb.
    * anuncio publicitario por radio = radio commercial, radio spot, sound bite, radio commercial.
    * anuncio publicitario por televisión = television commercial, television spot.
    * ardid publicitario = publicity ploy, advertising ploy.
    * banderola publicitaria = banner ad, banner advertisement.
    * banner publicitario = banner ad, banner advertisement.
    * bombo publicitario = media hype.
    * campaña publicitaria = advertising campaign, publicity campaign.
    * cancioncilla de anuncio publicitario = jingle.
    * cartelera publicitaria = hoarding.
    * compañía publicitaria = advertising firm.
    * dibujante publicitario = commercial artist.
    * dirigible publicitario = advertising blimp.
    * eslogan publicitario = sales pitch.
    * estrategia publicitaria = sales pitch.
    * frase publicitaria = catchphrase.
    * globo publicitario = advertising balloon.
    * histeria publicitaria = media hype.
    * hoja publicitaria = flyer [flier, -USA].
    * reclamaciones publicitarias = advertising claim.
    * rollo publicitario = sales pitch, product pitch.
    * sensacionalismo publicitario = media hype.
    * sintonía de anuncio publicitario = jingle.
    * valla publicitaria = billboard, hoarding.

    * * *
    advertising ( before n)
    la campaña publicitaria the advertising campaign
    era sólo un montaje publicitario it was just a publicity stunt
    masculine, feminine
    advertising executive o agent
    * * *

    publicitario
    ◊ - ria adjetivo ‹campaña/espacio› advertising ( before n);


    ‹truco/montaje› publicity ( before n)
    publicitario,-a adjetivo advertising
    ' publicitario' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    anuncio
    - corte
    - publicitaria
    - reclamo
    - espacio
    - lema
    - propaganda
    - réclame
    - spot
    English:
    advertising
    - commercial
    - stunt
    - flier
    - hype
    - jingle
    - razzmatazz
    * * *
    publicitario, -a
    ♦ adj
    advertising;
    pausa publicitaria commercial break
    ♦ nm,f
    advertising agent
    * * *
    I adj advertising atr
    II m, publicitaria f advertising executive
    * * *
    : advertising, publicity
    agencia publicitaria: advertising agency
    * * *
    publicitario adj advertising

    Spanish-English dictionary > publicitario

  • 2 μάγος

    μάγος, οὑ, ὁ (s. μαγεία, μαγεύω)
    ① a Magus, a (Persian [SNyberg, D. Rel. d. alten Iran ’38], then also Babylonian) wise man and priest, who was expert in astrology, interpretation of dreams and various other occult arts (so Hdt.+; Jos., Ant. 20, 142; s. Da 2:2, 10; in still other pass. in Da, Theod.; Tat. 28, 1. Beside φιλόσοφος of Apollonius of Tyana: Orig., C. Cels. 6, 41, 13). After Jesus’ birth μάγοι Magi Mt 2:7 (cp. Jos., Ant. 10, 216), 16a (=GJs 22:1); vs. 16b; GJs 21:1, 3 (apart fr. the pap text, μάγοι appears in codd. of GJs twice in 21:2; once in vs. 3), or more definitely μάγοι ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν (ἀπὸ Ἀρραβίας Just., D. 77, 4; ἀπὸ ἀνάτολῆς Orig., C. Cels. 1, 40, 20) Magi from the east Mt 2:1 came to Palestine and declared that they had read in the stars of the birth of the Messianic King. Diog. L. 2, 45 φησὶ δʼ Ἀριστοτέλης μάγον τινὰ ἐλθόντα ἐκ Συρίας εἰς Ἀθήνας in order to announce to Socrates that he would come to a violent end.—ADieterich, ZNW 3, 1902, 1–14; FSteinmetzer, D. Gesch. der Geburt u. Kindheit Christi 1910; GFrenken, Wunder u. Taten der Heiligen 1929, 186–93; KBornhäuser, D. Geburts-u. Kindheitsgesch. Jesu 1930. FCumont, L’Adoration des Mages: Memorie della Pontif. Acc. Rom. di Archeol. 3, ’32, 81–105. EHodous, CBQ 6, ’44, 71–74; 77–83.—On the Magi HMeyboom, Magiërs: TT ’39, 1905, 40–70; GMessina, D. Ursprung der Magier u. d. zarath. Rel., diss. Berl. 1930, I Magi a Betlemme e una predizione di Zoroastro ’33 (against him GHartmann, Scholastik 7, ’32, 403–14); RPettazzoni, RHR 103, ’31, 144–50; Goodsp., Probs. 14f.—On the star of the Magi HKritzinger, Der Stern der Weisen 1911; HGVoigt, Die Geschichte Jesu u. d. Astrologie 1911; OGerhardt, Der Stern des Messias 1922; DFrövig, D. Stern Bethlehems in der theol. Forschung: TK 2, ’31, 127–62; CSSmith, CQR 114, ’32, 212–27; WVischer, D. Ev. von den Weisen aus dem Morgenlande: EVischer Festschr. ’35, 7–20; ELohmeyer, D. Stern d. Weisen: ThBl 17, ’38, 288–99; GHartmann, Stimmen d. Zeit 138, ’41, 234–38; JSchaumberger, Ein neues Keilschriftfragment über d. angebl. Stern der Weisen: Biblica 24, ’43, 162–69, but s. ASachs and CWalker, Kepler’s View of the Star of Bethlehem and the Babylonian Almanac for 7/6 B.C.: Iraq 46/1, ’84, 43–55. Cp. ποιμήν 1.
    ② magician (Trag. et al.; Aeschin. 3, 137 [μάγος=πονηρός]; Diod S 5, 55, 3; 34 + 35 Fgm. 2, 5 τὶς … ἄνθρωπος μάγος, a false prophet, who πολλοὺς ἐξηπάτα; Vett. Val. 74, 17; Philo, Spec. Leg. 3, 93; TestReub 4:9) of Barjesus=Elymas on Cyprus Ac 13:6, 8. Cp. Hm 11:2 v.l.—On the history of the word ANock, Beginn. I 5, ’33, 164–88=Essays I 308–30; HKippenberg, Garizim u. Synagoge ’71, 122–24 on Ac 8:10; MMeyer/PMirecki, edd., Ancient Magic and Ritual Power ’95. M-LThomsen, Zauberdiagnose und Schwarze Magie in Mesopotamien (CNI Publikations 2) n.d.: ancient Mesopotamian background. S. also MSmith, Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark ’73, esp. 220–78 for ancient sources and 423–44 for bibl. (for caution about media hype and fantastic hypotheses relating to this work s. JFitzmyer, How to Exploit a Secret Gospel: America, June 23, ’73, 570–72). FGraf, La magie dans l’ antiquité Gréco-Romaine, ’95.—B. 1494f. Renehan ’82 s.v. DELG. M-M. TW.

    Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία > μάγος

  • 3 engreído

    adj.
    vain, cocky, proud, bigheaded.
    f. & m.
    swell-headed person, conceited person, swellhead.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: engreír.
    * * *
    1 vain, conceited, stuck-up
    * * *
    engreído, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=vanidoso) vain, stuck-up *
    2) LAm (=afectuoso) affectionate; (=mimado) spoiled, spoilt
    2.
    SM / F bighead *, spoiled brat
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) ( vanidoso) conceited, bigheaded (colloq)
    b) (Per) ( mimado) spoiled*
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    a) ( vanidoso) bighead (colloq)
    b) (Per) ( mimado) spoiled* brat
    * * *
    = conceited, self-inflated, stuck-up, self-important, cocky [cockier -comp., cockiest -sup.], high-blown, snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], cocksure, supercilious, big-headed.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex. library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex. He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.
    Ex. Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex. Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex. The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex. The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex. Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex. A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    Ex. I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) ( vanidoso) conceited, bigheaded (colloq)
    b) (Per) ( mimado) spoiled*
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    a) ( vanidoso) bighead (colloq)
    b) (Per) ( mimado) spoiled* brat
    * * *
    = conceited, self-inflated, stuck-up, self-important, cocky [cockier -comp., cockiest -sup.], high-blown, snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], cocksure, supercilious, big-headed.

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.

    Ex: Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex: library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex: He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.
    Ex: Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex: Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex: The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex: Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    Ex: I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.

    * * *
    engreído1 -da
    1 (vanidoso, presumido) conceited, bigheaded ( colloq)
    2 ( Per) (mimado) spoiled*
    engreído2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    1 (vanidoso) bighead ( colloq)
    2 ( Per) (mimado) spoiled* brat
    * * *

    Del verbo engreír: ( conjugate engreír)

    engreído es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    engreído    
    engreír
    engreído
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) ( vanidoso) conceited, bigheaded (colloq)

    b) (Per) ( mimado) spoiled( conjugate spoiled)

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    a) ( vanidoso) bighead (colloq)

    b) (Per) ( mimado) spoiled brat

    engreído,-a adjetivo conceited
    ' engreído' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    además
    - cambio
    - corte
    - engreída
    - estiramiento
    - fatua
    - fatuo
    - parecer
    - ufana
    - ufano
    - creído
    - pituco
    - presumido
    - sobrado
    English:
    bighead
    - bigheaded
    - cocksure
    - fatuous
    - self-important
    - smug
    - toffee-nosed
    - conceited
    - puffed
    - self
    * * *
    engreído, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [creído] conceited, full of one's own importance
    2. Perú [mimado] spoiled
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [creído] conceited person;
    ser un engreído to be very conceited
    2. Perú [mimado]
    ser un engreído to be spoiled
    * * *
    adj conceited
    * * *
    engreído, -da adj
    presumido, vanidoso: vain, conceited, stuck-up

    Spanish-English dictionary > engreído

  • 4 agobiante

    adj.
    1 overwhelming.
    2 exhausting, backbreaking, tough, arduous.
    3 tiresome.
    * * *
    1 (cansado) backbreaking, exhausting
    2 (abrumado) overwhelming
    3 (lugar) claustrophobic; (calor) oppressive
    4 (persona) tiresome, tiring
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [calor, ambiente, lugar] oppressive

    un día de verano agobiante — a stifling o sweltering summer's day

    2) (=insoportable) [trabajo, día] stressful; [pena, ritmo] unbearable; [responsabilidad] overwhelming
    * * *
    adjetivo, agobiador - dora adjetivo <trabajo/día> exhausting; < calor> stifling

    es una carga agobiante para él — it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

    * * *
    = oppressive, overpowering, stifling, suffocating, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], crippling, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.
    Ex. Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.
    Ex. The librarian should at all times try to place himself in the position of the reader and ask just how much information will be useful without becoming overpowering.
    Ex. He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
    Ex. Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex. It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.
    * * *
    adjetivo, agobiador - dora adjetivo <trabajo/día> exhausting; < calor> stifling

    es una carga agobiante para él — it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

    * * *
    = oppressive, overpowering, stifling, suffocating, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], crippling, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.

    Ex: Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.

    Ex: The librarian should at all times try to place himself in the position of the reader and ask just how much information will be useful without becoming overpowering.
    Ex: He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
    Ex: Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.
    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex: It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.

    * * *
    adj,
    agobiador - dora adjective ‹trabajo/día› exhausting; ‹calor› stifling
    hacía un calor agobiante it was stifling o oppressively hot
    resultó ser una carga agobiante para él it turned out to be a terrible o crushing burden on him
    * * *

    agobiante,
    ◊ agobiador -dora adjetivo ‹trabajo/día› exhausting;


    ‹ calor› stifling;
    ◊ es una carga agobiante para él it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

    agobiante adjetivo
    1 (trabajo) overwhelming
    2 (espacio cerrado) claustrophobic
    3 (clima, temperatura) oppressive
    4 (persona) tiresome, tiring

    ' agobiante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    calor
    English:
    boiling
    - burdensome
    - oppressive
    - stifling
    - suffocating
    - crippling
    * * *
    [presión, trabajo, persona] overwhelming; [calor] stifling; [ambiente] oppressive;
    problemas agobiantes overwhelming problems;
    trabajo agobiante backbreaking work
    * * *
    adj
    1 trabajo exhausting
    2 calor stifling
    * * *
    1) : exhausting, overwhelming
    2) : stifling, oppressive

    Spanish-English dictionary > agobiante

  • 5 presuntuoso

    adj.
    1 conceited, arrogant, assuming, vain.
    2 pompous, highfaluting, lavish, highfalutin.
    m.
    self-conceited person, snob.
    * * *
    1 (presumido) conceited, vain; (arrogante) presumptuous
    * * *
    ADJ (=vanidoso) conceited, presumptuous; (=pretencioso) pretentious
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo conceited, vain
    * * *
    = conceited, pompous, presumptuous, immodest, pretentious, stuck-up, hyfoluted, high-blown, snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], poseur, cocksure, big-headed, portentous.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. Many feel that it is presumptuous to think that a 150- to 250-word abstract can carry enough information from a well-written 3,000-word paper to be of much use except as a guide.
    Ex. The author reviews an article by Tom Eadie, ' Immodest proposals: user instruction for students does not work'.
    Ex. Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex. library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex. I can believe that changing the logo broke some hyfoluted view ofthe library.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex. Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex. The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex. It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.
    Ex. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex. This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
    Ex. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex. I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
    Ex. He is described in the play as a "rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech'.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo conceited, vain
    * * *
    = conceited, pompous, presumptuous, immodest, pretentious, stuck-up, hyfoluted, high-blown, snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, hoity-toity, vain [vainer -comp., vainest -sup.], poseur, cocksure, big-headed, portentous.

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex: Many feel that it is presumptuous to think that a 150- to 250-word abstract can carry enough information from a well-written 3,000-word paper to be of much use except as a guide.
    Ex: The author reviews an article by Tom Eadie, ' Immodest proposals: user instruction for students does not work'.
    Ex: Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex: library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.
    Ex: I can believe that changing the logo broke some hyfoluted view ofthe library.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex: Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex: The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex: It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.
    Ex: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.
    Ex: This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
    Ex: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex: I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
    Ex: He is described in the play as a "rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech'.

    * * *
    conceited, vain
    * * *

    presuntuoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    conceited, vain
    presuntuoso,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 (presumido) vain, conceited
    2 (pretencioso) pretentious, showy

    ' presuntuoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    chula
    - chulo
    - presuntuosa
    - suficiente
    - ufana
    - ufano
    English:
    bumptious
    - immodest
    - jumped up
    - pompous
    - pretentious
    - upstart
    - conceited
    * * *
    presuntuoso, -a
    ♦ adj
    [vanidoso] conceited; [pretencioso] pretentious
    ♦ nm,f
    conceited person
    * * *
    adj conceited
    * * *
    presuntuoso, -sa adj
    : conceited
    * * *
    presuntuoso adj boastful

    Spanish-English dictionary > presuntuoso

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