A SLAP-BANG-SHOP is now a very pretentious eating-house.
Actually a good hit only is intended, but redundancy has its charms in the back slang as well as in more pretentious literary efforts.
As applied to billiards and kindred games, it means pretentious and inferior play.
She was comely, had a bright though superficial mind, spoke in a pretentious manner, and over-dressed.
He despises pretentious official criticism, the criticism that distributes good and bad marks to authors in a pedagogic fashion.
It was quite a pretentious affair, built of hewed logs, and consisted of two large rooms with a hallway between, a gallery on three sides, and a kitchen at the rear.
A less pretentious one would have suited me, but then a United States senator must befittingly entertain his friends.
Finally, after a good deal of pretentious pantomime, the fair señorita appears to realize the purport of all this wooing, and seems gradually to yield to his silent yet expressive importunities.
Quite a pretentious theatre of stone is in course of erection just opposite the little Plaza de Mejia Mora.
Here, also, is a pretentious battle-piece by a native artist, representing the battle of Puebla, when the French were so completely defeated.
The floor is of marble, while that of the more pretentious edifice at the city of Mexico is of wood, a token indicative of more important matters wherein the Puebla cathedral is superior in finish.
Mrs. Lyle was at the glove counter at Mason's years ago; she was then Maggie McKay, and a vain, pretentious thing.
As a rule the surface is uneven and but slightly polished and the figures in red are rudely executed, but in the more pretentious pieces much care has been exercised in finishing and painting.
A few pieces are morepretentious and yield a number of notes, and if operated by skilled performers or properly concerted are capable of producing pleasing melodies.
His glasses on their broad pretentious ribbon banged against his stomach.
The club was a dingy building, three pretentious old dwellings knocked together, and the entrance-hall resembled a potato cellar, yet the Babbitt who was free of the magnificence of the Athletic Club entered with embarrassment.
For the minds of those who have undergone this discipline, life becomes a pretentious and cruel syllogism, whose premises are obscure but whose conclusion is remorseless.
The less said about Guatemala hotels the better; those in the capital are pretentious and bad.
Passing through a miserably dirty village street, we entered by a pretentious gate into the great bare plaza.
He seems to be as convinced as I am that there is no happiness in living in strenuous and pretentious laziness by the sweat of other men's brows.
I said that in America the most pretentious buildings were the worst.
It feeds, clothes, and houses a number of people in strenuous and pretentious laziness.
This street is lined on either side with stores and public buildings, some of large and pretentious aspect.
People came in and out with a pretentiouspurpose of not awaking me.
For instance, pillars and looped-up curtains painted on flat walls, with pretentious shadows, having no reference to the real direction of the light.
After all, in spite of the pretentious impostors who trade upon the claim, literature, contemporary literature, is the breath of civilized life, and those who sincerely think and write the salt of the social body.
The number engaged, and the capital invested, may not reach very pretentious figures, but the beginning has been made.
In connection with this subject I insert here the following reply (containing several historical facts) to a singularly pretentious letter which Dr.
Lord John Russell, thepretentious and vacillating Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time, proved himself to be, in this matter, a pliant instrument in the hands of Henry of Exeter.
The more pretentious establishments of the Peace ward, however, were sumptuously fitted up.
Opposite the hotel stands the church, a dainty piece of architecture, fit for a more pretentious town than Senekal.
As for the people who live there now, they're certainly not worth while--the same pretentious ignoramuses that used to live there, except they no longer have fangs.
Upon taking my leave of the king I sought Brandon, whom I found comfortably ensconced in our old quarters, he preferring them to much more pretentious apartments offered him in another part of the palace.
I used to wonder why Conrad never tackled a straight-out story of adultery under Christianity, the standard matter of all our more pretentiousfiction and drama.
The house, too, had a pretentious air about it that promised well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretentious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
