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Significados de pretension (pretensions) em inglês

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The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

pretensão

A false or unsupportable quality.

Uso de pretensions em inglês
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Despite his own literary pretensions, Borge was no supporter of free speech.
The Guardian
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The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.
Pride and Prejudice
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But the optics of the deal shred Beijing's pretensions to political neutrality.
Reuters
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This gentleman made up in pretensions for what he lacked in talent.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
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She was good-humored, a good sport, worked hard, and lacked their pretensions.
A good woman
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On the contrary, it must renounce its magnificent dogmatical pretensions in philosophy.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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Her pretensions were justified by universal custom and the law of nations.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
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The Romans submitted to the pretensions of a race which they despised.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Edward quickly emerges as a ne'erdo well with pretensions rather than dreams.
The Irish Times
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We continued it even yet, in spite of all our great pretensions.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
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He came to his place unheralded and without any special personal pretensions.
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
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With that, his pretensions to the leadership of the House quite disappeared.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall ...
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The place seemed to defy her and make light of her pretensions.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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There was a theatre in Goyaz-a rambling shed of no artistic pretensions.
Across Unknown South America
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Both were plainly dressed in cotton gowns, and neither made any pretensions.
Penelope's Postscripts
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And like the Amazon, the revolt was against man and his pretensions.
The Business of Being a Woman
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