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Person 1: ********, EVERYONE uses the word A wrong. It's not a complicated word.

Person 2: "that"?

Person 1: No, it means this, not that.

Person 2: ...actually, it means that. Let me look it up and see how every single page defining it shows it as meaning that, not this.

Person 1: Well...well - I guess everyone uses it to mean that, but it really means this!

Person 2: why the hell am i being civil with you.

Turns out Person 1 was complaining about the <i>way</i> people used the word A, especially when criticizing things.
Spoiler: people knew exactly how to use the word and meant to mean that, not this. Person 1 was just butthurt about the criticism and critics, not really the word use itself. Had Person 2 know about this beforehand, they may have been more accepting of this tantrum. This is assuming, of course, that the art being criticized was not deserving of being called A.

If Person 2 had also know about how grumpy and in need of a vent Person 1 was, the confusion and indignation of having Person 2's knowledge defied (being told that word A meant this, not that. repeatedly.) might have been spared. Might. But none of this was known until later when the damage had already been dealt. Given the circumstances, then, Person 2 could only define Person 1 as:

pretentious: expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated self-importance, worth, or authority.
Definition taken almost verbatim from merriam-webster.com, third result of the google search string "pretentious define."