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Example sentences for: pretension

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It's no coincidence that Golin had his apprenticeships at both Men's Health and Cosmo, two magazines unlikely ever to be accused of sentimentality or pretension.
Out the window went centuries of snobbery, mystique, and pretension.
Indeed his self-deprecating I'm-just-a-dumb-jock routine inoculates him against charges of intellectual pretension.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, pretension was introduced into mainstream pop not by the Beatles but by the Rolling Stones.
Powell seemed to abhor pretension above practically anything.