Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pretensions: (125 results)
Often used in the same context:
pretenses, pretentiousness, pomposity, affectations, grandiloquence, pompousness, snobbery, snootiness, conceits, anglophilia, haughtiness, poseur, notions, snobbishness, pieties, snobbism, ambitions, preconceptions, frippery, intellectualism, trappings, egotism, bombast, smugness, fustiness, dilettantism, condescension, pedantry, conventionality, claptrap, illusions, daftness, didacticism, twaddle, superficiality, artifice, attitudinizing, sentimentalism, knowingness, banality, stodginess, elitism, sanctimony, fatuousness, grandeur, scruples, bourgeois, superciliousness, aspirations, blandness, stolidity, ponderousness, vainglory, vaunting, insipidness, philistinism, amour propre, hokum, middlebrow, priggishness, exoticness, historicism, ghastliness, foppery, pseudo, popularism, hypocrisies, virtuousness, panache, tawdriness, idiocies, sanctimoniousness, popinjay, flummery, glibness, moralizing, idolisation, implausibility, prudery, showiness, suavity, politesse, snob, falseness, niceties, vacuousness, royalism, insipidity, prejudices, delusions, rotundity, auteurism, sneery, loathsomeness, mundanity, poshness, sneers, sumptuousness, worldliness, cleverness, utopianism, inconsequence, pretentions, pretension, claims, prestige, attainments, patrimony, prerogatives, privileges, hopes, preeminence, arrogance, honours, ideals, pretences, repute
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Also try:bromidic, corny, debunking, honest, platitudinal, platitudinous, repudiation, unpretentiousness
— Adjectives for pretensions: such, high, own, literary, social, intellectual, false, architectural, aristocratic, scientific, lofty, more...
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