pretension
矫揉造作,矫枉过正,矫情,矫饰性
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Definitions
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- : the laying of a claim to something.
- : a claim or title to something.
- : Often pretensions. a claim made, especially indirectly or by implication, to some quality, merit, or the like: They laughed at my pretensions to superior judgment.
- : a claim to dignity, importance, or merit.
- : pretentiousness.
- : the act of pretending or alleging.
- : an allegation of doubtful veracity.
- : a pretext.
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Examples
Neighborhood bowling alleys have a total lack of pretension in the best way.
Trekkies are defensive about the minutiae of their sacred source material, sometimes to the point of pretension.
Humor, after all, is a social corrective against arrogance, ignorance and pretension.
But it's also because, from the APF's point of view, pretension is bad business.
People loved Julia because she was very straightforward, and she didn't put on any airs, or have any pretension.
“So corrupt, evil, vile American liberal culture, such United States pretension,” as Pygmy reports.
The garden was in a perfect state of cultivation, but without the least pretension to taste in its arrangement.
The comic poets ridiculed pretension, arrogance, quackery, and lies.
The truth about the Carlist pretension is so little known in England that it may be well to state it.
The coward is boastful when there is no danger: pretension succeeds in the absence of real merit!
And I'm actuated by positive benevolence; I've that impudent pretension.