How do you use Pretentiousness in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like ostentation or unnaturalness, plus the exact meaning.
Pretentiousness in a sentence
Pretentiousness meaning
The quality of being pretentious.
Synonyms of Pretentiousness
Using Pretentiousness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being pretentious.
- Useful related words include: ostentation, unnaturalness, largeness, pretension.
- In the example corpus, pretentiousness often appears in combinations such as: for pretentiousness.
Context around Pretentiousness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pretentiousness
- In this selection, "pretentiousness" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, prosey and artistic stand out and add context to how "pretentiousness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little pretentiousness is not and but without pretentiousness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pretentiousness" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pretentiousness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And there was no room for pretentiousness. (7 words)
In contrast to this pretentiousness, the road along the South Gare puts you right down in it. (17 words)
It is a friendly place where you can loosen up your collar; no pretentiousness to be found at all. (19 words)
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. (33 words)
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. (31 words)
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. (27 words)
Almost no flavor has a name shorter than two words, a pretentiousness that at times strays into silliness — for instance, “Iranian green pistachio”? (23 words)
Example sentences (9)
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.
Common combinations with pretentiousness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: