Meanings of less pretension in inglês

Is there any with less pretension, except in the matter of virtue?

The less pretension you make, the better they will like you in the long run.

Old Nash was, perhaps, a better gentleman than his son; but with far less pretension.

As to the Methodists, they made fifty years ago much less pretension to an intellectual footing in the religious world than at the present day.

There is not a production in the whole realms of fiction, that has less pretension to manly, or even endurable feeling, or to common propriety.

It should to conservatives complaining about "Who wore it best and with less pretension?" when deficits are about to skyrocket under a President Romney.

It's a missionary book, and has less pretensions to be literature than Spurgeon's sermons.

Still, it was my home, and as such I should have loved it, had it possessed even less pretensions to beauty.

"There's less pretension on Rodeo Drive," answered McDermott, who had grown up in the Ninth Street Projects.