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
This metastasized as a sort of juvenile mania: Everyone else was fake or putting on airs and not staying true to their genuine selves, whatever that meant.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021
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
Even though everyone appears to be with friends, it seems like at the same time everyone’s putting on airs.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
