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Pretentious
"Pretentious" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The people who come on the Maury Povich show often make pretentious claims about their lovers cheating on them.
Her nature is neither affected nor pretentious.
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
You are so pretentious!
Tom is fairly pretentious.
He's a pretentious boy who thinks he's better than everyone else.
He's just a pretentious douchebag.
I found his pretentious demeanor quite disconcerting.
Don't be so pretentious.
I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
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Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
The station (1840) was originally Cheltenham but the more grandiose Cheltenham Spa since 1925, which feels a bit pretentious as the town has never allowed itself to assume such airs and graces.
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