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pretentiousness

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Conquering 2021 may seem like an overly pretentious plan, especially for an immigrant who is just beginning to take his own steps in this great country.

Moreover, Trebek’s performance didn’t just lack pretension, it was anti-pretentious.

House, M.D., was a series from the get go, so no worries about pretentiousness.

The infamous cable about the pretentiousness, quirks, and unpredictability of Muammar Gaddafi is but one example.

The rooms were just ordinary hotel rooms, furnished with the dingy, wholesale pretentiousness of hotels of the second rate.

It was a dwelling place of unusual pretentiousness for that land of "Do-without," where inexorable meagerness is the rule of life.

Even leaving aside the discomforts which are always allied to pretentiousness, the poor rich woman has a hard time of it.

Some human vanity the north tower of Chartres displays, but no arrogant pride, no Renaissance pretentiousness.

Whether Meredith himself was more ashamed of their tailoring or their pretentiousness it is not easy to decide.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pretentiousness, such as: arrogance, cockiness, egotism, grandiosity, immodesty, and ostentation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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