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Significats de pretension en anglès

portuguès
pretensão
català
fingiment
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The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

fingiment

A false or unsupportable quality.

Ús de pretension en anglès
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That's early Settlement Years use, or just hyper-educated, kanji-scribbling, First Families pretension.
Woken furies
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She is particularly good at nailing the exorbitant pretension of their décor.
The Guardian
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One recent story nicely summed up his zip and lack of pretension.
The Irish Times
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He has remained an unrepentant redneck, and Hustler promotes pornography without pretension.
The new yorker
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Thus was the pretension of State Rights made the apology for imbecility.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 / A Magaz...
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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
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There was no pretension or pedantry in a word that was said.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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I have neither the ambition nor the pretension to be one, madame.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 02
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Where the pretension is higher, the test may justly be more severe.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
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His family recall a talented man plagued by pretension and self doubt.
Radio NZ
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Having laid hands upon them, they had the pretension to keep them.
Other People's Money
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It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
News.com.au
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Now they are a hipster habit, a sheeplike folly, a permanent pretension.
The Guardian
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Being a place of pretension, we will look closer into its mystery.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
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Is there any with less pretension, except in the matter of virtue?
Emile
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By pretension to Second Sight, no profit was ever sought or gained.
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
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Translations for pretension
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pretensão
Pretension a través del temps
Pretension per variant geogràfica
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