pretension
Example Sentences
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The movie became a reference by which the absurdities of real-life rock ’n’ roll pretension would forever be measured.
Kenyon’s dig at “uproarious pedantry” nods to James’s intellectual pretensions, which some courtiers derided—even though a learned monarch seems preferable to an ignorant one.
Mr. Schlossberg’s campaign displays aristocratic pretensions that fit uneasily into this new politics.
Shortly after arriving here, Gellhorn returned to the China front and once again left Ernest to be Ernest, this time with an ocean view and manorial comforts, with a bearable touch of pretension.
From Salon
Reflecting on the press, he later noted, "The press has pretensions of being a crusader but is more often a preserver of the status quo."
From BBC
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