pretentiously
Example Sentences
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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
Yes, there are certain companies or hiring managers who pretentiously recruit from prestigious schools.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
It riffs on the whites and blues of the French artist Yves Klein, with choreography, by Sophie Laplane, that rides the line between enjoyably quirky and pretentiously silly.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
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
The woman who presently appeared to gaze at him with open-mouthed wonder, was pretentiously and untidily dressed, with some measure of good looks woefully obscured by a hard and unsympathetic expression.
From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
