This author writes pretentiously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They stray too far from their area of expertise and engage in pretentiously written, self-important speculation. From Wordnik.com. [New & Noteworthy] Reference
It is simply self-indulgent and pretentiously poetic. From Wordnik.com. ["Is it Crap?" part three] Reference
The lady tossed her head haughtily and pretentiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference
And look, my pretentiously literary novel has a pulp cover!. From Wordnik.com. ['til you find you're back in vegas with a handle in your hand--] Reference
Moses utterly and pretentiously ignored a “next world.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Christo's work, while pretentiously described, is arresting. From Wordnik.com. [what is art? who am i?] Reference
I don't mean that as pretentiously as it sounds as I read back. From Wordnik.com. [And Then, There Was Monday] Reference
On the other hand, the three books of travel pretentiously named. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Sure, Bentley is just trying to write as pretentiously as she can. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bradley: How About a Gene for Editing Bad Writing] Reference
Or phrased less pretentiously: being able to name what we're feeling. From Wordnik.com. [George Spyros: iPhone 4 FaceTime Commercials: Are Apple's TV Ads Really "Heartbreaking?" (Video)] Reference
But the hardest part, I find, is learning to talk about wine pretentiously. From Wordnik.com. [Wine Snobs] Reference
So Windu's pretentiously-coloured sabre is finally being put to good use. From Wordnik.com. [Scar Friends Luncheon Circle] Reference
Being pretentiously condescending to people doesn't make you suddenly right. From Wordnik.com. [Super Obamario Wins The Nobel Peace Prize! » E-Mail] Reference
“My dear madam, anything will suffice,” said Mr. Carter, somewhat pretentiously. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
Rinpoche especially disliked when people pretentiously bragged about their practices. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche] Reference
Also, behind the cut, what I shall pretentiously refer to as (the artist's workspace). From Wordnik.com. [officially...] Reference
We're headed out to brunch and then to the coffee shop to pretentiously write in public. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2002-11-01] Reference
We will be quoted pretentiously proclaiming that “Near-Analogues are the new prefabs.”. From Wordnik.com. [Heavy Load-Exerting Concrete Body and Other Structural Near-Analogues] Reference
When a young man goes on pretentiously about “the film,” Brenda snaps, “Which film?”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
More pretentiously, this doesn't just apply to virtual world design, it can apply to any art. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Bartle Type] Reference
Dicky, with a pretentiously rueful glance at the arm she has just pinched so very delicately. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
And it is quite evident to me that he knows very little about the writers he pretentiously refers to. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Philosophers] Reference
I can only manage to read three or four self-consciously arty and pretentiously obscure novels a year. From Wordnik.com. [Opt Out Or Fight Back?] Reference
Literature and art are necessarily time-servers, either abjectly so or aggressively and pretentiously so. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Should I put it pretentiously and say these children had an algebraic rather than a merely arithmetic schema?. From Wordnik.com. [A Psychological Issue] Reference
He has, by now, followers who somewhat pretentiously describe themselves as 'the Peterhouse school of history.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Moral Minority] Reference
For the most part, they're thoroughly undeserving of the immortality they've pretentiously bequeathed to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Chez Pazienza: What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been] Reference
Then there was another Brit professor whose pretentiously titled "Utopian Thought For a Better Society" course I took. From Wordnik.com. [weeme Diary Entry] Reference
Yes, the Big Zero totally lifted that from "Lawrence,", and it's one of the most pretentiously phony things I've ever read. From Wordnik.com. [America proven frivolous.] Reference
With a start he came to himself, ashamed of his weakness, and hastily blew his nose, fussing pretentiously with his handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
As for the two Cowperwood households, so recently and pretentiously joined in success, now so gloomily tied in failure, the life was going out of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
The room had a blue wall-paper, and was well, almost pretentiously, furnished, with its round table, its divan, and its bronze clock under a glass shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
She knew what it was all meant to represent, but it was so pretentiously false and unnatural that she first felt ashamed for the actors and then amused at them. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
A faded waistcoat, a cravat, pretentiously tied, although the material was a worn-out foulard, bespoke the secret distress to which a former dandy sometimes falls a prey. From Wordnik.com. [A Start in Life] Reference
In the episode, which also features guest turns by Peter York and Peter Bogdanavich, Ted crashes a snobby high-society party to show off how pretentiously intellectual he can be. From Wordnik.com. [HuffPost TV: Arianna Guest Stars On CBS's "How I Met Your Mother" (VIDEO)] Reference
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