Affected manners intended to impress others:
— Don't put on airs with me.

synonym: pose.

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting etc. 884.    charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology etc. (altiloquence) 577.    mannerism, simagree, grimace.    conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.    stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame.    affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule [Fr.], bas bleu [Fr.], blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan etc. (deceiver) 548; petit maitre etc. (fop) 854; flatterer etc. 935; coquette, prude, puritan.    ... show more

Roget 880: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation^†, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre [Fr.]; selfishness etc. 943.    airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism^†, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery^†, vainglory, elation; pride etc. 878; ostentation etc. 882; assurance etc. 885.    vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; cheval de bataille [Fr.].    coxcomb etc. 854; Sir Oracle etc. 887.    ... show more

Roget 885: insolence; haughtiness etc. adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance^†; domineering etc. v.; tyranny etc. 739.    impertinence; sauciness etc. adj.; flippancy, dicacity^†, petulance, procacity^†, bluster; swagger, swaggering etc. v.; bounce; terrorism.    assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation.    impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness etc. adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass.    assumption of infallibility.    saucebox etc. (blusterer) 887^†.    ... show more

Polish: maniera, poza, maska