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Pretension meaning
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality. | Pretentiousness.
Synonyms of Pretension
Example sentences (8)
The mask had a connotation of duplicity and betrayal, of disguise and hope, of pretension and dream.
There was no pretension that this could be accomplished without mayhem and murder.
Pretension should be completely gone in a marriage.
There’s no pretension to its greatness - just our Kylie.
There’s good reason: Try for a definitive snapshot of a country or a generation, and you risk overreaching or succumbing to pretension.
If you yearn for the comfort of the kind of neighbourhood restaurant that serves good honest food without any pretension or hullabaloo, then Annabelle’s is for you.
No dress code, no pretension, just good honest fun for folks 21 and up.
And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less if it is put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.