Pretentiousness

In a sea of corner delis that can assemble a solid Italian hoagie on autopilot, Middle Child builds a sandwich with the precision of a refined French restaurant, but without pretentiousness.

In contrast to this pretentiousness, the road along the South Gare puts you right down in it.

Almost no flavor has a name shorter than two words, a pretentiousness that at times strays into silliness — for instance, “Iranian green pistachio”?

A little pretentiousness is not the worst thing ever, and not all people who are pretentious are bad people, but Ted is.

It is a friendly place where you can loosen up your collar; no pretentiousness to be found at all.

Most definitely — I still can’t find a word to rhyme with orange, but I’m positive Ali, with all his prosey pretentiousness, could find about five.

Meanwhile, in parts of social media, the phrase “personal brand” has become a kind of ironic millennial in-joke, a byword for pretentiousness.

The Comden and Green musical, satirizing artistic pretentiousness vs. old-fashioned show business, features such classic numbers as "That's Entertainment" and "Triplets," in which Fabray, Astaire and Buchanan dress up as babies.

And there was no room for pretentiousness.