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

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

Emil Jannings stars as Immanuel Rath, “a professor at the local college,” as he pretentiously introduces himself, expecting others to be impressed.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2020

Johnson and Hunter are catty together, pretentiously dripping insults in the famed literary spat, and they go with the flow as Psalmayene 24 gets them jumping onto cafe tables for hip-hop interludes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2019

With a start he came to himself, ashamed of his weakness, and hastily blew his nose, fussing pretentiously with his handkerchief.

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice