pretension
Example Sentences
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The gap between European pretensions and European reality has become a chasm.
In some ways the films seem to invite accusations of pretension, of reach exceeding grasp and grandeur stretched into grandiosity.
The movie became a reference by which the absurdities of real-life rock ’n’ roll pretension would forever be measured.
Kenyon’s dig at “uproarious pedantry” nods to James’s intellectual pretensions, which some courtiers derided—even though a learned monarch seems preferable to an ignorant one.
Mr. Schlossberg’s campaign displays aristocratic pretensions that fit uneasily into this new politics.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
