0 the quality of trying to make yourself appear or sound more important or clever than you are:
Her writing tends towards abstraction and pretentiousness.
I couldn't believe the pretentiousness of the book.
The pretentiousness and prices at the new coffee shop are a real let down.
There was a kind of pretentiousness to the critics reviews of the play.
I thought it a delightful novel that contains no pretentiousness.
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May 10, 2021
WORD OF THE DAY
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pretentiousness
