Crossword-Solution: PRETENTIOUSNESS
We have 16 clues for the answer “PRETENTIOUSNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Snob's attitude | 1 answer |
| the quality of being pretentious | 1 answer |
| Artificial behaviour to impress others | 2 answers |
| posing | 3 answers |
| Self-importance | 4 answers |
| frontage | 25 answers |
| ostentation | 30 answers |
| Veneer | 31 answers |
| Affectation | 72 answers |
| Swagger | 72 answers |
| airs | 74 answers |
| COVERING ___ | 75 answers |
| guise | 77 answers |
| Front | 78 answers |
| pretence | 85 answers |
| Acting | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRETENTIOUSNESS (5)
Probably a good deal of his pretentiousness was due to the fact that he habitually expressed himself in a book learned language, wholly remote from anything personal, native, or homely.
She had not what is called a “sense of humor.” That is, she had no intellectual humor; no power to enjoy the absurdities of people, no relish of their pretentiousness and inconsistencies—which only depressed her.
And on the strength of peccadillos, reprehensible in an author, but excusable in a son, the Anglo-Saxon race is accused of prudishness, humbug, pretentiousness, deceit, cunning, and bad cooking.
Edith apostrophized him to her fashionable friends as “a real genius,” leaving a dim impression upon their minds of flowing locks, a shiny velvet jacket, slouched hat, defiant neck-tie and a general air of disreputable pretentiousness.
Hence the extreme though suppressed astonishment of Doctor Bianchon and the waggish journalist when they beheld, on the garden steps of Anzy, a lady dressed in thin black cashmere with a deep tucker, in effect like a riding-habit cut short, for they quite understood the pretentiousness of such extreme simplicity.
Quotes with PRETENTIOUSNESS (3)
Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1997–2008).