pretentiousness

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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

My tastes broadened a bit in college, with a whiff of pretentiousness: Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Benny Goodman, Jacques Brel and a jazz fusion band called Weather Report.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 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

Hence the confusion of fundamental conceptions, and in general the unspeakable crudeness and awkwardness that appears from under the covering of affectation and pretentiousness in the philosophical attempts of the generation thus brought up.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur