Portuguese
fausto Catalan
grandiloqüència Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
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While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
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But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
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Pollert, who, in spite of her pretentiousness, met with favour from the public.
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Her mother mocked her silence as another evidence of ridiculous pretentiousness.
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This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity.
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Punctilious propriety is always pretentious, and pretentiousness is always an attempt at fraud.
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Nevertheless he regarded it as essentially absurd in its pretentiousness.
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He knew pretentiousness for the mask of worthlessness and weakness.
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But even he sometimes winced at the pretentiousness of his mother and his aunts.
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To be accused of pretentiousness is perhaps the ultimate insult.
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He probed character with a glance, and was particularly sharp on pretentiousness and self-importance.
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If she really had talents, her pretentiousness would degrade them.
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With quick eyes and a hard, no-nonsense manner, he lacked the pretentiousness of many barristers.
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Yount immediately realized there was no pretentiousness with Henry.
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Others are untruthful in their pretentiousness, and in assuming merits which they do not really possess.
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Hughes's ability to convey intellectual solidity without drifting into pretentiousness helped nudge aside those lingering suspicions.