pretentiousness

How To Use pretentiousness In A Sentence

• The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
• Ultimately what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.
• He has a tendency towards pretentiousness.
• They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
• What was needed therefore was a superlative comeback - original, clever without pretentiousness and above all very funny.
• There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
• They invite questions but also somehow avoid pretentiousness, obscurantism or any form of exclusivity.
• His manner is both warm and friendly, with not a hint of the pretentiousness of some of his better known colleagues.
• The hypocrisy, double-speak and pretentiousness among the so-called illuminati is astounding. Center for American Progress Action Fund
• A discussion about the merits of Bob Dylan's new memoir, for instance, quickly degenerated into a patchouli-scented haze of dewy-eyed 1960s nostalgia and hippie-dippy pretentiousness.