Read Edit View history 装腔作势 zhuāngqiāngzuòshì pretentious Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 装腔作势 (裝腔作勢) zhuāngqiāngzuòshì pretentious idiom to put on airs or behave in an artificial, affected manner to impress or intimidate others 他说话总是装腔作势，让人感到很不舒服。 tā shuōhuà zǒngshì zhuāngqiāngzuòshì, ràng rén gǎndào hěn bù shūfu. He always speaks in an affected manner, which makes people feel uncomfortable. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.91 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.517 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
装腔作势 (裝腔作勢) zhuāngqiāngzuòshì pretentious idiom to put on airs or behave in an artificial, affected manner to impress or intimidate others 他说话总是装腔作势，让人感到很不舒服。 tā shuōhuà zǒngshì zhuāngqiāngzuòshì, ràng rén gǎndào hěn bù shūfu. He always speaks in an affected manner, which makes people feel uncomfortable. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.91 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.517 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)