pretentiously

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Amandaland follows middle class Amanda and her two children as they adapt to life in South Harlesden - which she refers to, pretentiously, as "SoHa" - having been forced to leave Chiswick following her divorce.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

“My role is not to teach,” he declares pretentiously.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021

Eilish is not pretentiously trying to frame the first 19 years of her life as a story that would enlighten and inform her public.

From Slate • May 15, 2021

I had just finished "Fade Out," where I was trying as pretentiously as possible to just follow Alan Moore's footsteps and do, like, a serialized novel as a comic book.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2018

Many an insignificant shop-keeper had been known to exchange his musty rooms for a villa in the suburbs, to furnish it pretentiously, and to send his sons on trips abroad.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson