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Meanings of pretension (pretensions) in English

Portuguese
pretensão
Catalan
fingiment
Spanish
apariencia

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

      pretensão

      A false or unsupportable quality.

            Usage of pretensions in English
            1
            Despite his own literary pretensions, Borge was no supporter of free speech.
            The Guardian
            2
            The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.
            Pride and Prejudice
            3
            But the optics of the deal shred Beijing's pretensions to political neutrality.
            Reuters
            4
            This gentleman made up in pretensions for what he lacked in talent.
            Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
            5
            She was good-humored, a good sport, worked hard, and lacked their pretensions.
            A good woman
            6
            On the contrary, it must renounce its magnificent dogmatical pretensions in philosophy.
            The Critique of Pure Reason
            7
            Her pretensions were justified by universal custom and the law of nations.
            What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
            8
            The Romans submitted to the pretensions of a race which they despised.
            Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
            9
            Edward quickly emerges as a ne'erdo well with pretensions rather than dreams.
            The Irish Times
            10
            We continued it even yet, in spite of all our great pretensions.
            The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
            11
            He came to his place unheralded and without any special personal pretensions.
            Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
            12
            With that, his pretensions to the leadership of the House quite disappeared.
            Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall ...
            13
            The place seemed to defy her and make light of her pretensions.
            The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
            14
            There was a theatre in Goyaz-a rambling shed of no artistic pretensions.
            Across Unknown South America
            15
            Both were plainly dressed in cotton gowns, and neither made any pretensions.
            Penelope's Postscripts
            16
            And like the Amazon, the revolt was against man and his pretensions.
            The Business of Being a Woman
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            Translations for pretensions
            Portuguese
            pretensão
            Pretensions through the time
            Pretensions across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            Ireland
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common