Sentence examples for pretentious wording from inspiring English sources

(This slightly pretentious wording cuts both ways, though; it can bring out the Edna May Oliver in a person, the sniffy voice that wants to say, whether such a dismissal is warranted or not, "Yes — limited indeed").

Avoid cliches and pretentious words.

Such a good pretentious word".

STOP IT". Next you'll be saying gastrolounge is a pretentious word.

"We have a very, for want of a less pretentious word, bohemian relationship with the city," she says.

When mentioning her to friends, I called her my tutee, a pretentious word I'm pretty sure I've never heard anyone else use, though it was technically accurate: I was tutoring her.

Sites www.buzzwhack.com A site devoted to deflating important-sounding but pretentious buzz words like "dot-conomy," described as "what happens when the buzz makers run into a word where they can't just add the letter 'e.' " BuzzWhack also seeks to define and debunk unfairly adopted buzz words like "deliverable," which is described as "a perfectly legitimate word that has become consultant-speak".

Some are too pretentious for words.

A school's motto often includes pretentious Latin words that espouse truth, integrity and variations on "be the best you can be" and "stay true to yourself and others".

It also returned to the meaning of the word pretentious, which Sting pointed out comes from the same root as the word pretend.

I drop the word pretentious into his lap.