Pretension [noun]
Definition of Pretension:
airs, snobbishness
Synonyms of Pretension:
● Conceit
● Snobbery
● Show
● Fake
● Phony
● Disguise
● Splash
● Front
● Put-on
● Charade
● Vanity
● Big talk
● Showoff
● Showboat
Sentence/Example of Pretension:
To folly, to pretension, to presumption, he showed but slight forbearance.
Where the pretension is higher, the test may justly be more severe.
The Utopian ideas which I have expressed have in no way the pretension to be new.
I speak generally, and not with any pretension to exactness.
He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.
I have no pretension to delay my reader by any details of the trial itself.
I shall be able to feed them; but how to lodge them with any pretension to comfort is more than I can see.'
You don't set up the pretension of dictating to me what I am to do with what's my own.
You don't set up the pretension of dictating to me what I am to do with what is my own.
She reveres in my person a genius to which I make no pretension.