pretentious
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For the beer lover, Etsy seller Pretentious Beer Glass has on offer four hand-blown Pilsner glasses for $162.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2022
“I downloaded the app Pretentious Actors,” he joked.
From New York Times • May 27, 2020
Here is the thing I have always been most convinced I am not: Pretentious.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019
Pretentious is often the place you have to start if you want to get somewhere else,’ ” Hall said.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2017
The joke from The Pretentious Young Ladies, Scene xii., page 162, about "the half moon and the full moon" is repeated in the conversation between Fourbin and Bloody-Bones in The Soldier's Fortune.
From Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband by Molière
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