pretentiousness
Example Sentences
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Gabrielle and Katerina credit the enduring appeal of Dan Tana’s to its persistent lack of pretentiousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Some of X’s pretentiousness — she is given to statements like “To be rebellious and to distrust rebellion is the plight of the tragic artist” — bleeds over into the book itself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
Perhaps not surprisingly, narcissistic arrogance can also come out in the ways one usually associated with pomposity — "pretentiousness, preening, snobbery, a sense they are better than others," according to Durvasula.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2023
Besides its portions, prices and flavors, it’s ironically Ravi’s lack of pretentiousness that gives it cache.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
He passed on, however, after a meaningless word or two and, sprawling in another section, surrendered himself to the troubled pretentiousness of the Pullman school of decoration.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson
