pretension in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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His early writings have been characterized as having an ironic, knowing distance from their characters and icily precise skewerings of pretension and hypocrisy.
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But it becomes dangerous when it assumes messianic pretensions.
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It is actually a critique, then, of the pretensions of "applied" practical reason.
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In addition, he was easily irritated, especially if his status and pretensions went unacknowledged.
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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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The contracts between a nation and individuals are only binding on the conscience of the sovereign, and have no pretensions to a compulsive force.
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The law was passed mainly to check the pretensions of "novi homines", of whom the "nobiles" were jealous.
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The inhabitants of the "pagus" would have expressed concern or even refusal when faced with the pretensions of their closest neighbours.
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His common sense exploded the pretensions of expert opinion, and his compelling eloquence warned of the evils of society loosed from its moorings in faith.
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I refuse to burden my life with such grandiose pretensions.
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