pretentiousness

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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

My tastes broadened a bit in college, with a whiff of pretentiousness: Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Benny Goodman, Jacques Brel and a jazz fusion band called Weather Report.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022

There seems to be a really great sense of humor and lack of pretentiousness in Chicago and Illinois.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

In the ‘New Republic’ the characters said to represent Huxley and Clifford are completely disguised by their pompous pretentiousness.

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir