Significados de much pretension en inglés

Roseberry was a straggling little place, without much pretension to gentility.

It has no edifice of much pretension, and yet it is not badly built.

Thwaite Hall was not a place of much pretension.

We scarcely know how to answer a man who unites so much pretension to so much ignorance.

His wife hath, I believe, had much pretension to beauty, and is still a very fine woman.

It was square and heavy-looking, with just that much pretension to ornament necessary to distinguish it from the mere farm-house.

In our larger American cities, where they have much pretension but little character, a leg must not be spoken of as such.

It is situated at the foot of the Taragarh mountain, and consists of a block of white marble buildings without much pretension to architectural beauty.

While it does not make so much pretension as some other companies, it must be distinctly announced that this is a safe and permanent investment.