Synonym: largeness, pretence, pretense, pretentiousness. Similar words: surface tension, pretense, tension, extension, hypertension, comprehension, apprehension, pretend. Meaning: [prɪ'tenʃn] 
n. 1. a false or unsupportable quality 2. the advancing of a claim 3. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).
n. 1. a false or unsupportable quality 2. the advancing of a claim 3. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth). 
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31. He was beyond any pretension. Although he corresponded with many of the world's most important people, his stationery carried only a watermark—W—for Woolworth 's.
32. The priggism of intellectual pretension is the one unpardonable sin.
33. Except perhaps for Mark Twain, no other American writer has registered with such precision the humor — and the pathos — of false sophistication and the vital banality of big-city pretension.
34. It is quite complex and difficult to simulate bolt pretension accurately in the analysis of bolt joint by finite element method.
35. Kuo - yu's vision and technique progress hand - in - hand , true and faithful, pure and without pretension or superficial effects. Sentencedict.com
36. It is the most impudent piece of pretension I ever heard of in my life.
37. Okay, who thinks the food is delicious and a little pretension never hurt anyone?
38. It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party.
39. I can also be pretension and flash it away to others. haha!
40. Whereas holding the line pretension ratio of cable and membrane, the change of pretension value in cable or membrane does not affect structural form.
41. Self - reliance is sneered at as an absurd suburban pretension.
42. Based on the dynamics and raceway control theory of the rolling bearing, the dynamic model of angular contact ball bearing was set up with consideration of the pretension.
43. When holding the line pretension of cable and increasing pretension of membrane, structural curvature increases.
44. An Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer, considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pretension.
45. Be humble, be harmless, gave no pretension, be upright, forbearing, serve you teacher in true obedience.
46. No one who has the slightest pretension to literary tastes insensible to its attraction.
47. But it is the essence of scientific method to limit its own pretension.
48. Three methods such as the pretension element, decreasing temperature and penetrative contact methods are discussed in ANSYS by using finite element technology.
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