pretentiousness

Example Sentences

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He’s easy to get along with, easy to understand and, and there’s no pretentiousness with him.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

It slips into pretentiousness only to slip right back out again.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess."

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2022

The class had been watching French New Wave films and Braden decided to parody their pretentiousness.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

In the interim, sentiment dwindled into nonsense and love, evaporating in pretentiousness, was discoverable, if anywhere, only on a map.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar