pretentiously in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for pretentiously in the English»French Dictionary

pretentiously [Brit prɪˈtɛnʃəsli, Am prəˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli] ADV

pretentiously

avec prétention

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prétentieusement

pretentiously

pretentiously in the PONS Dictionary

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prétentieusement

pretentiously

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English

I constantly describe my comedy, rather pretentiously, as being like a magic trick; there's a long build-up towards the final reveal.

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The owner will come and pretentiously exorcise the demon in order to get money from people.

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Ruthless, smart but pretentiously wrongheaded, she's the kind of culture vulture we haven't seen before.

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His intensity and the surge of the music carry the lyric, which seemed vaguely pretentious (or pretentiously vague) even at the time.

news.nationalpost.com

It is pretty on the plate: artistic, but not pretentiously so, and generous in serving size.

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But despite those virtues, and the pic's determinedly idiosyncratic take on autobiographically inspired material, most viewers will find the script's narrative shapelessness and pretentiously poetic dialogue hard to take.

variety.com

Abstract painting at once invites the most concise and most pretentiously long-winded commentary -- depending on whether one sees nothing or everything in the canvases.

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Then we turn round, pretentiously surprised or unhappy that "our man" actually robbed us blind!

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If someone is pretentiously preoccupied with that latest dried meat, let's not reward them with an adorable label.

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Pretentiously, we are giving the impression, having been viciously conscientized by partisan affiliations, that it is coming from some perceived inability of the present administration to do the needful.

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