How to use "pretentious" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pretentious" in popular movie and book plots

  • A shallow and pretentious noblewoman, she explains that Innocent was the result of a fling she'd had with artist Pierce Armitage.  - Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact
  • One could call that pretentious framing and composition.  - Hum Ek Hain
  • He hires the stiff and pretentious mrs Hortensia General to educate his daughters and prepare them for their new position in society.  - Little Dorrit (TV series)
  • Staines gets his revenge by making Bubble a pretentious fool, worse than the natural fool he already was.  - Greene's Tu Quoque
  • This is Elizabeth’s modus operandi whenever she deals with pretentious people like Caroline Bingley.  - Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
  • mrs Plumleigh-Bruce, the pretentious widow of an Army Colonel, is contemplating marriage to Donald Stimpson, a local estate agent.  - Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse
  • The guests at the party are all very pretentious and rich and snobby ("Drop That Name") and they make Ella feel very out of place.  - Bells Are Ringing (musical)
  • At the camp, Jane meets an older girl and the two bond over mutual contempt for their pretentious mentor and equally pretentious peers.  - Is It Fall Yet?
  • Tolstoy accepts Nathan's idea and assigns him to work with Max, a shallow and pretentious young actor.  - This Other Eden (novel)
  • She accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy and respectable but snobbish and pretentious man named Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis).  - A Room with a View (1985 film)
  • New arrivals come to Highbury, including young orphan Miss Fairfax and Elton's new pretentious wife.  - Emma (1996 TV film)
  • In the summer of 1947, a pretentious thirteen-year-old girl called "Miss" Lily Jane Bobbit is liked by two boys, who are best friends.  - Children on Their Birthdays
  • Authors and readers are regarded as pretentious and dangerous to the well-being of society.  - Guy Montag
  • Throughout the series, Blackadder's chief rival is Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry), the Queen's pretentious and grovelling Lord Chamberlain.  - Blackadder II
  • After a bad start, Dixon realises he is attracted to Christine, who is far less pretentious than she initially appears.  - Lucky Jim
  • More than that, she worries that her ambitious and increasingly pretentious elder daughter, Veda, will think her new job demeaning.  - Mildred Pierce

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