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Significados de pretentiousness em inglês

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Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.

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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)

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Uso de pretentiousness em inglês
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While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
The Art of Letters
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But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
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Pollert, who, in spite of her pretentiousness, met with favour from the public.
My Life — Volume 1
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Her mother mocked her silence as another evidence of ridiculous pretentiousness.
Linda Condon
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This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity.
The Irish Times
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Punctilious propriety is always pretentious, and pretentiousness is always an attempt at fraud.
Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
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Nevertheless he regarded it as essentially absurd in its pretentiousness.
The Price of Love
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He knew pretentiousness for the mask of worthlessness and weakness.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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But even he sometimes winced at the pretentiousness of his mother and his aunts.
The Red Planet
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To be accused of pretentiousness is perhaps the ultimate insult.
The Irish Times
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He probed character with a glance, and was particularly sharp on pretentiousness and self-importance.
Collections and Recollections
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If she really had talents, her pretentiousness would degrade them.
Emile
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With quick eyes and a hard, no-nonsense manner, he lacked the pretentiousness of many barristers.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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Yount immediately realized there was no pretentiousness with Henry.
The last hero: a life of henry aaron
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Others are untruthful in their pretentiousness, and in assuming merits which they do not really possess.
Character
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Hughes's ability to convey intellectual solidity without drifting into pretentiousness helped nudge aside those lingering suspicions.
The Irish Times
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Translations for pretentiousness
Pretentiousness ao longo do tempo