pretentiously's Usage Examples:

However the tone of the book is less sympathetic to students, showing the pretentiously named title character and his circle as unprincipled and shallow rather.

On that track, he created a catchy hybrid by mixing pretentiously heavy sound of Laibach with poetry of Laza Kostić and Desanka Maksimović.

generally understood to mean either "aggressively avant-garde" or "pretentiously progressive".

Wignall, a respected Port Arthur architect, it is one of the most pretentiously designed Bungaloid structures in town.

writing in Slant Magazine that the film was "arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted".

rock albums of the year: truly beautiful and intelligently (but not pretentiously) presented.

descriptor was generally understood to mean "aggressively avant-garde" or "pretentiously progressive".

short-robed doctors were bitter because the long-robed physicians behaved pretentiously.

headhouses of the Tremont Street subway were sharply criticized as "pretentiously monumental", with the Scollay Square headhouse compared to "an enlarged.

warrens, grimy waste-ground and car-parks, Council housing estates, pretentiously-named streets, cheap corner shops and kebab houses.

, but Pavement steer clear of the former's pretentiously bleak posturing and the latter's dreary self-pity".

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it a "pretentiously metaphorical picture" which becomes "awfully precious and monotonous.

headhouses were sharply criticized as "resembling mausoleums" and "pretentiously monumental".

" He added "[It] uncoils and meanders so deviously and pretentiously, and the dialogue slips into such metaphorical mishmash that the result.

Max, who has always been pretentiously snobbish, begins to taunt Joe.

While carrying out their duties, Wong pretentiously tells Lee the first commandment of the Miscellaneous Affairs: There.

praised: opinions variously described it as unusual and different, or pretentiously symbolic and leaving exterior and interior shots poorly matched.

Baan6 haai5 (扮蟹) - To behave pretentiously 10.