The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Synonyms
Examples for "largeness"
Examples for "largeness"
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There was epic largeness in the circuit of the plainsman's daring plans.
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There was a largeness and confidence in them that carried me away.
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The one thing it loved to talk about was expansion and largeness.
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There is largeness of stroke in this list, and a wide prospect.
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A horrible perception of the largeness of the world swept over him.
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While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
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But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
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Pollert, who, in spite of her pretentiousness, met with favour from the public.
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Her mother mocked her silence as another evidence of ridiculous pretentiousness.
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This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity.
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That's early Settlement Years use, or just hyper-educated, kanji-scribbling, First Families pretension.
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She is particularly good at nailing the exorbitant pretension of their décor.
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One recent story nicely summed up his zip and lack of pretension.
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He has remained an unrepentant redneck, and Hustler promotes pornography without pretension.
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Thus was the pretension of State Rights made the apology for imbecility.
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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension.
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There was no pretension or pedantry in a word that was said.
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I have neither the ambition nor the pretension to be one, madame.
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Where the pretension is higher, the test may justly be more severe.
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His family recall a talented man plagued by pretension and self doubt.
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Having laid hands upon them, they had the pretension to keep them.
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It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
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Now they are a hipster habit, a sheeplike folly, a permanent pretension.
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Being a place of pretension, we will look closer into its mystery.
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Is there any with less pretension, except in the matter of virtue?
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By pretension to Second Sight, no profit was ever sought or gained.
