The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
A false or unsupportable quality.
1 That's early Settlement Years use, or just hyper-educated, kanji-scribbling, First Families pretension .
2 She is particularly good at nailing the exorbitant pretension of their décor.
3 One recent story nicely summed up his zip and lack of pretension .
4 He has remained an unrepentant redneck, and Hustler promotes pornography without pretension .
5 Thus was the pretension of State Rights made the apology for imbecility.
6 The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension .
7 There was no pretension or pedantry in a word that was said.
8 I have neither the ambition nor the pretension to be one, madame.
9 Where the pretension is higher, the test may justly be more severe.
10 His family recall a talented man plagued by pretension and self doubt.
11 Having laid hands upon them, they had the pretension to keep them.
12 It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension .
13 Now they are a hipster habit, a sheeplike folly, a permanent pretension .
14 Being a place of pretension , we will look closer into its mystery.
15 Is there any with less pretension , except in the matter of virtue?
16 By pretension to Second Sight, no profit was ever sought or gained.
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