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pretentious

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At first, the girls are only in danger of being forced to listen to one man’s extremely pretentious opinions about religion, philosophy, culture and, yes, pop music, which is terrifying in itself.

How many ways can I say . . . in my thick, pretentious l’accent francais?

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And so I always tried to get, like, very pretentious wine talk into the show, and that never made the cut.

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I actually do love wine, and I think I find wine very funny when people are pretentious about it.

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It can come off a little pretentious, with its Roman numeral “chapter” titles, nervous zoom shots and ponderous voice-overs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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