putting on airs
Example Sentences
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"So I sound a bit like I have pretences, putting on airs for a while. It's abysmal for a while," she laughed.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2025
Moreover, the script transitions him, through Finan’s effective performance, from a gawky, bespectacled nerd putting on airs, into an unctuous political predator.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024
Other favorites included “Mad About You” and “Keeping Up Appearances,” the British comedy about a middle-class woman putting on airs: “I was, like, a redneck just aspiring to be PBS.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2021
She knows when someone is putting on airs.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2020
They despised any leader from among their own number, refused to follow or even listen to him, on the grounds that he was no better than they were, that he should stop putting on airs.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
