pretension 的定义
- 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.
pretension 近义词
airs, snobbishness
false claim, assertion of importance
更多pretension例句
- 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.