Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at pretentiousness.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Pretentiousness.
Examples
-
I wonder why that word seems so apt ... maybe it was on the tip of the writer's tongue because the subtext of the article is all about His Pretentiousness and his toadies on the City Council reeling in millions of taxpayer dollars for their private gain.
Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
-
Please feel free to leave suggestions "A Pretentiousness of Prii," " A Pratfall of Prii"....
Laura Zigman: "I'm Angry That Your Prius Is So Quiet" Laura Zigman 2011
-
But all the hate and discontent about that goes away the minute three commissioners come to their senses and say, Basta! and tell his Pretentiousness that he can take one or both teams wherever he wants but the city is not going to be his silent partner (oh, and pay your own damn living wage to your peanut vendors).
What exactly is going to be done to PGE Park? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
-
SteB1 was quick as a flash to respond: Pretentiousness necessarily involves having pretentions to be something.
Readers' Reviews 2011
-
B.R. Myers makes it much more forcefully in his brilliant and hilarious polemic A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose.
David Stoesz: David Foster Wallace vs. Dave Barry: What is good writing? David Stoesz 2010
-
B.R. Myers makes it much more forcefully in his brilliant and hilarious polemic A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose.
David Stoesz: David Foster Wallace vs. Dave Barry: What is good writing? 2010
-
Probably not, but I don't really associate with 'literary types' - there must be some sort of Isle of Pretentiousness that breeds these editorial masturbators, and a market to sup from the literary bukkake.
BSNYC星期五乐趣测验! BikeSnobNYC 2009
-
Pretentiousness does not equal intelligence, but it sure tries to mimic it.
I think I'm going to have to stop watching "American Idol." Ann Althouse 2008
-
Charles needs to use his Wednesday Pretentiousness Kit.
From the BSNYC Culture Desk: Trickery BikeSnobNYC 2008
-
Yes, the BSNYC/RTMS Pretentiousness Kit has all you need to be unbearably pretentious.
From The BSNYC Culture Desk: Art and Transience BikeSnobNYC 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.