pretentiously
Example Sentences
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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
“My role is not to teach,” he declares pretentiously.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
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
Johnson and Hunter are catty together, pretentiously dripping insults in the famed literary spat, and they go with the flow as Psalmayene 24 gets them jumping onto cafe tables for hip-hop interludes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2019
At dinner, doubtless in order to make me feel "at home," I was engaged in conversation by a stout female person rather pretentiously attired, who proved to be the housekeeper of the hotel.
From The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee
