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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.
The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Synonyms
Examples for "inflation"
Examples for "inflation"
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The new government on Monday made fighting food inflation its top priority.
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Yet the result was only higher inflation without a rise in exports.
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However, inflation posed a growing problem for firms and for their clients.
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Cost inflation this year is in line with managers' forecast, said Premier.
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National inflation rates continue to be wide apart in the euro zone.
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Again, it suggests the characteristic absence of all ostentation in His works.
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For there is nothing like ostentation or conceit of intellect in Portia.
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Expensive equipages, making a show and ostentation of figure in the world.
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For he carefully avoided ostentation, and preferred doing his good in secret.
5
He took pleasure in giving generously, but always judiciously and without ostentation.
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Hugh was very angry and a little absurd in his youthful pomposity.
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At this the French agent draws his figure up with much pomposity.
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There is a curious pomposity about him, too, which grates upon me.
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Certainly not the time for unkind mention of his slight pomposity.
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The gentleman took it seriously, and it has given his strut additional pomposity.
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This eye balm targets key eye-area concerns; fine lines, puffiness and dark circles.
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She shut her eyes so as not to see the puffiness.
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There is a puffiness, and a slight abrasion of the skin.
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His dull eyes opened as wide as their puffiness would permit.
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Before the puffiness starts to show, be pro-active and use this eye cream.
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He is a hidalgo of blue blood in pride, pompousness and poverty.
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After which he proceeded with much pompousness to pronounce the following opinion:
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A great landowner was remarkable for the pompousness of his manner.
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Chrysabelle wanted to smack the pompousness out of his voice.
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His customary arrogance and pompousness of manner were laid aside.
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The living space otherwise is frugal almost to the point of ostentatiousness.
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But the number of the terms we employ, as well as their ostentatiousness, must be considered.
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They're not just Bluetooth headsets minus the ostentatiousness, they're an omnipresent way to digitally hear and be heard.
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The industry is recovering from a more than two-year decline that coincided with a government campaign against ostentatiousness among public officials.
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The Macau casino industry is recovering from a more than two-year decline that coincided with a government campaign against ostentatiousness among public officials.
Usage of pretentiousness in English
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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.
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Pretentiousness through the time