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Meanings of pretentiousness in English

Portuguese
fausto
Catalan
grandiloqüència

Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

      fausto
      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
          Usage of pretentiousness in English
          1
          While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
          The Art of Letters
          2
          But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
          The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
          3
          Pollert, who, in spite of her pretentiousness, met with favour from the public.
          My Life — Volume 1
          4
          Her mother mocked her silence as another evidence of ridiculous pretentiousness.
          Linda Condon
          5
          This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity.
          The Irish Times
          6
          Punctilious propriety is always pretentious, and pretentiousness is always an attempt at fraud.
          Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
          7
          Nevertheless he regarded it as essentially absurd in its pretentiousness.
          The Price of Love
          8
          He knew pretentiousness for the mask of worthlessness and weakness.
          Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
          9
          But even he sometimes winced at the pretentiousness of his mother and his aunts.
          The Red Planet
          10
          To be accused of pretentiousness is perhaps the ultimate insult.
          The Irish Times
          11
          He probed character with a glance, and was particularly sharp on pretentiousness and self-importance.
          Collections and Recollections
          12
          If she really had talents, her pretentiousness would degrade them.
          Emile
          13
          With quick eyes and a hard, no-nonsense manner, he lacked the pretentiousness of many barristers.
          Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
          14
          Yount immediately realized there was no pretentiousness with Henry.
          The last hero: a life of henry aaron
          15
          Others are untruthful in their pretentiousness, and in assuming merits which they do not really possess.
          Character
          16
          Hughes's ability to convey intellectual solidity without drifting into pretentiousness helped nudge aside those lingering suspicions.
          The Irish Times
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