pretentiousness

Example Sentences

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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

He’s easy to get along with, easy to understand and, and there’s no pretentiousness with him.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

The class had been watching French New Wave films and Braden decided to parody their pretentiousness.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Mr. Tressall has avoided altogether the pretentiousness and literary affectation that betrayed, for example, Mr. H. G. Wells' bathchairman, Meeks.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir