pretentiousness
Example Sentences
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The nuances of race are also present in the show’s cultural specificity, such as the depiction of a Korean American church community or the fine art-world pretentiousness of Amy’s Japanese American husband and family.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Perhaps not surprisingly, narcissistic arrogance can also come out in the ways one usually associated with pomposity — "pretentiousness, preening, snobbery, a sense they are better than others," according to Durvasula.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2023
He’s easy to get along with, easy to understand and, and there’s no pretentiousness with him.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023
It slips into pretentiousness only to slip right back out again.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Mr. Tressall has avoided altogether the pretentiousness and literary affectation that betrayed, for example, Mr. H. G. Wells' bathchairman, Meeks.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
