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pretension [prɪˈtenʃn] N

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Today it refers to someone who is humble and lacking pretension.
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These stories tend to be more satiric in tone, and she often parodies middle-class pretensions.
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The class is beginning to have international pretensions.
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They say she has pretensions of a literary nature.
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In terms of its pretensions, the capitalist system has failed.
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The sequence of monumental stairs followed by a state apartment was copied in smaller scale everywhere in aristocratic dwellings of any pretensions.
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He was uneasy about class pretensions and especially the idea of being above the men, yet his soldiers loved him deeply and praised him loudly.
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At the same time, he could be wittily ironic about society's pretensions, spoofing subjects like psychiatry, suburbanites and social climbing.
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They sought to create a forum without the pretension or curatorial constraints of the traditional art world.
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The school expanded across 5th avenue, one block to the north, building a two-story brick building that is strictly functional... with no architectural pretensions.
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