The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.

Here, the ominous background score merely accentuates the work's more pretentious qualities.

These witnesses are more frequently right than the more pretentious professional expert.

Points not marked upon more pretentious charts receive and bill barter products.

A gloomier, more pretentious, or worse-devised structure I never set eyes on.

The little depot was far more pretentious than any other building in sight.

I smoked an inexpensive cigar; Mink lit a more pretentious one.

The more pretentious dealers kept brass bands to attract the crowd.

But remember, the more pretentious a dish is, the more it challenges criticism.

The more pretentious establishments of the Peace ward, however, were sumptuously fitted up.

It was more pretentious than the first, with a large, well lighted office.

She had seen many places that were more pretentious and prettier.

There were only three houses of a more pretentious sort, built of wood.

This encouraged Clemens to something even more pretentious and effective in the same line.

In addition, certain of the more pretentious boasted special attractions.

Much more so, I should say, than in many of the more pretentious homes.