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Significados de pretentious em inglês
português
presumido Making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction.
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Intended to attract notice and impress others.
Sinônimos
Examples for "arrogant"
Examples for "arrogant"
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President Grant in the beginning undertook to break down this arrogant claim.
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He was of a feeble character, arrogant in prosperity, faint-hearted in adversity.
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As the Mormons increased in power, they became more self-sufficient and arrogant.
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As time went on Germany and Austria became more and more arrogant.
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The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
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I did not, so I ignored what I considered a presumptuous question.
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Wearing the ring of one's better can be viewed as quite presumptuous.
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In face of the terrible tidings, that would have been too presumptuous.
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He persisted in regarding the missionary as a presumptuous and execrated enemy.
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Painting and sculpture seem to me the most presumptuous of the arts.
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The Senator was promptly and intensely interested in this cocksure declaration by
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At that she laughed in a kind of a friendly, cocksure way.
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He was a well-favored youth with an unlovely manner, haughty and cocksure.
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Be cautious always; be especially cautious when you are cocksure you're right.
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James DeGale is as cocksure as he is buttery-smooth inside the ropes.
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He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
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See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
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I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
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My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
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They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
Uso de pretentious em inglês
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Yes, the process it precious and meticulous, but by no means pretentious.
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The buildings were higher and much more pretentious in design and ornamentation.
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I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
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There was nothing pretentious about the home in which he was raised.
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I find the architecture pretentious, even in its present somewhat de-Romanized version.
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Perhaps the most pretentious is the French Hotel in Santo Domingo City.
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It was pretentious and yet infectious, a delight for Harold to read.
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More weighty than many of the more pretentious treatises on the subject.
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That can look pretentious but I don't think it is at all.
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See, I can do pretentious art referencing with the best of them.
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Perhaps it's a fear of being judged as too earnest or pretentious.
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There's no better time to be pretentious than when you're in college.
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They saw the drawing of a pretentious structure with towers and porticoes.
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They passed spacious buildings, and came to those less pretentious in style.
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Without trying to be pretentious, they achieve an effect of simple beauty.
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A self-deceived little woman whispering in corners with a pretentious little man.
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