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nouna false or unsupportable qualitytype of:
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nounthe quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
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"his pretension to the crown" "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"nounthe advancing of a claimtype of:
Definition that contains pretension
- honest without pretensions
- corny dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- unpretentious lacking pretension or affectation
- repudiation the exposure of falseness or pretensions
- debunking the exposure of falseness or pretensions
- platitudinous dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- platitudinal dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- bromidic dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- unpretentiousness the quality of being natural and without pretensions