Similar words: pretentious, pretentiousness, sententiously, ostentatiously, conscientiously, retention, contentious, tendentious. Meaning: [prɪ'tenʃəslɪ] 
adv. in a pretentious manner.
adv. in a pretentious manner. 
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(1) He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously.
(2) Particularly, the case of Financai Management is rendered pretentiously.
(3) This author writes pretentiously.
(4) The term describes a pretentiously showy or impressive facade to draw attention away from dirty conditions.
(5) To stop acting or speaking foolishly or pretentiously. Often used in the imperative.
(6) They keep trying to sanitize the event and give it pretentiously serious overtones when all the children want to do is party.
(7) The lion still unevenly divided the meat into 11 shares, but selected and took away two ones, and then pretentiously spoke to the wolves, "You yourselves discuss how to allocate these pieces of meat."
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