Don't talk so pretentiously!
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Pretentiously
//pɹɪˈtɛnʃəsliː//
Synonyms for "pretentiously" (1 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- pretensiosament adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Finnish
2 entries- mahtailevasti adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
- tärkeilevästi adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
French
1 entries- prétentieusement adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Italian
1 entries- pretenziosamente adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Portuguese
1 entries- pretensiosamente adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Spanish
1 entries- pretenciosamente adv (in a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
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