Sentence examples for pretentious with from inspiring English sources
It's a big gay favourite and a bit pretentious, with lots of intellectuals hanging around.
But they should be a cool kind of pretentious, with more scary guitars and such in the background.
The site also captions shots of the young and pretentious with lines such as: "Hold on, let me check to see if Topshop sells any iPhone purses".
His characters ranged from the ridiculously pretentious, with their elaborate coiffures, widely frogged uniforms, and enormous bosoms and bottoms, to the merely pathetic, whose trailing handkerchiefs expressed their dejected attitudes.
Granted, the "Matrix" movies are designed to be pretentious, with all those dopey names like Morpheus and Trinity (and how about, for future films, Piety, or Eucharist, or Pompous?).
In the three decades I've been teaching, I find that the subset of students is steadily increasing who consider nearly all words of three or more syllables pretentious, with the exception of "pretentious" — which is for them an indispensable term.
"It's not a pretentious thing with him.
The Greenwich Myrna's is considerably more pretentious, beginning with its rather overblown décor.
Pick of the week MIA Jimmy (XL) Genre-gobbling lady genius or pretentious empress with no clothes?
A curved staircase, clad in pretentious tigerwood with brushed stainless steel handrails, looks imported from a Park Avenue office building.
Posh and pretentious, and with gorgeous, curly, brown hair, he was certain to be a celebrated poet.
