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Examples for "pretentious "
Examples for "pretentious "
1 Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious .
2 The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.
3 I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious .
4 There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
5 I find the architecture pretentious , even in its present somewhat de-Romanized version.
1 The free room seems squalid to us, and the dime room ostentatious .
2 Will they criticise the security measures as overweening, ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
3 Fthoom was still going on, sentence after ostentatious sentence, about the Alliance.
4 A not too ostentatious clatter of dishes came through the closed folding-doors.
5 He dressed in plain, ordinary clothes rather than extravagant or ostentatious ones.
1 You really can't go wrong when it comes to geeky sci-fi kitsch .
2 This combination of highbrow and kitsch is not theirs alone, of course.
3 Beneath the kitsch bodywork, this is actually a BMW 2-Series Active Tourer.
4 The parade was a mix of old-fashioned communist-realist kitsch and newfangled weaponry.
5 The heterosexuals of showbusiness loved excess and kitsch and bad taste, too.
6 My work is treading this fine line between kitsch and something quite serious.
7 As the dynamic duo, they set a high water mark for 1960s kitsch .
8 Today the Wayback Machine looks weathered, dated, especially the Rocky and Bullwinkle kitsch .
9 Aside from the history and kitsch , some Italians still regard themselves as fascists.
10 Still interested in the possibility of taking home some kitsch lighting?
11 It's yet another addition to Russia's weird and wonderful collection of personality-cult kitsch .
12 Outside, hawkers try to sell everything from postcards to some wonderful Mao kitsch .
13 Upper-crust Indians despise it in the way Western highbrows despise Las Vegas kitsch .
14 Such figurative interpretations of earth goddesses could be seen as kitsch .
15 They thought we were indulging a bit of kitsch , says Langford.
16 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pool-side style: Palm Springs goes kitsch during Coachella in 2016.
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