Examples of 'pretensions' in a sentence
Meaning of "pretensions"
pretension (noun) - the act of claiming or aspiring to a certain status or quality, often in an exaggerated or false manner. Pretension involves putting on airs or behaving as though one is more important or refined than they actually are. It can also refer to a false or unjustified claim to something
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The pretensions of these hoodlums are quite breathtaking.
The following list has no pretensions to being exhaustive.
The pretensions of this report are modest.
That house had distant pretensions to a province.
He had no pretensions of instituting something on a large scale.
The senate enthusiastically ratified his pretensions.
They made no pretensions to religious piety or righteousness.
She completely lacked interest in royal pretensions.
No one makes any pretensions about rehabilitation.
A modest person avoids excesses and pretensions.
The pretensions of any performer are immediately recognisable.
No doubt you find our pretensions amusing.
Gama had pretensions for beyond the literature.
The insects put human pretensions to shame.
All your pretensions and fears just vanish.
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Henry will not give up his pretensions.
His extravagant pretensions only served to excite ridicule.
It goes without saying that we have no scientific pretensions.
Women with intellectual pretensions are not tolerated here.
It is a good team if you have no more pretensions.
They say she has pretensions of a literary nature.
I was really good at school without any pretensions.
That despite our pretensions to a mystical higher birth.
This film does not have moral pretensions.
He made pretensions to literature and to materialism.
These are political systems with totalitarian pretensions.
We have no pretensions about being something more.
No more time to waste on your pretensions either.
Pretensions vastly beyond its capabilities.
They are a reaction to the universalist pretensions of modernity.
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.
It has a sound to match those grand pretensions.
With such these pretensions may have weight.
Which induced him to abandon his pretensions.
Marion had no pretensions about her.
These pretensions are the classic positions of class struggle.
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth.
It also pretensions the longitudinal fibers.
Learn to despise props and pretensions.
How insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being.
It requires dropping facades and pretensions.
I have never had pretensions as a writer.
But it becomes dangerous when it assumes messianic pretensions.
But leave the pretensions home.
It was an austerely rational structure with few stylistic pretensions.
There are no pretensions about this milk.
You do not have these pretensions.
I have no pretensions to be offering definitive conclusions.
She does not have any pretensions.
I have no pretensions about myself.
