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
As though channeling a baffled Czech apparatchik, Crowther pronounced the movie “a pretentiously kookie and laboriously overblown mod farce about two playgirls who are thoroughly emptyheaded.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 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
I had just finished "Fade Out," where I was trying as pretentiously as possible to just follow Alan Moore's footsteps and do, like, a serialized novel as a comic book.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2018
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 John Maurice Miller
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