Sentence examples for How pretentious from inspiring English sources

How pretentious.

How pretentious of me!" She felt a spasm of exasperation that Toby had stored up all the nonsense she'd ever spoken and taken it so seriously.

How pretentious is that?

Yes, I'm aware of how pretentious and boring that is.

"At first I thought, 'Oh, come on, how pretentious would that be?' " he recalled.

But the cult of packaging being artwork (it's called "artwork", for God's sake, how pretentious is that?) seems inherent in pop music.

How utterly pretentious".

How (insufferably) pretentious are those brackets?

How shameful and pretentious".

"You could imagine how serious and pretentious this store could be".

Such creatures do exist, and Ms Hustvedt should know how toe-curlingly pretentious they can sound: "Why was she telling me this?