How to Use pretension in a Sentence
pretension
noun- The restaurant offers excellent food without pretension.
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The pretension of wine culture leaves a bad taste in her mouth.
—Taylor Mims, Billboard, 2 June 2022
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And then the second part is that there’s no pretension.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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Every so often the seas rise up and blow away all the pomp and pretension.
—Charles Graeber, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021
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Maybe there is simply not enough pretension in the world.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 May 2022
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But Wall Street no longer wears its old pretensions on pin-striped sleeves.
—Claire Ballentine, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2019
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Her shots are pretty in the realest sense of the word, and glamorous without pretension.
—Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2019
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There is none of the self-consciousness or pretension that such fusions tend to have north of the Rio Grande. .
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
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At Callie, there is no pretension, no white tablecloths in the dining room and no chef’s coats in the kitchen.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
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Chumley’s was too old and too small for any such pretensions.
—Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
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Wearing shades sans-sun used to scream pretension or pink eye.
—Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 31 May 2019
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The labels, too, shed pretension, reminding one of album art — stark and to the point.
—Joseph Hernandez, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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The pieces are meta and self-aware but not weighed down by excess pretension or sporty detailing.
—Liz Raiss, GQ, 14 May 2018
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The only odor no one ever detects is a whiff of pretension.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
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Her boys laughed at her pretensions, prattle, and lack of culture.
—Longreads, 21 June 2017
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It’s the pretension, naïve and arrogant, that the laws of the gods apply to everyone except us.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
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Related Yet the show floated along on its own lack of pretension.
—Ben Fritz, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
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Maison Close has a buzzy and chic vibe which lacks pretension and arrogance.
—Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
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The Oscars do more harm than good, pushing year-end films toward pretension in a scramble for prizes.
—Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2018
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What saves the gimmick from tipping over into leaden pretension is a sense of play.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
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But The Bear has earned its ambitions, even a little pretension.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 June 2023
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The stylish show is choreographed, as the title would demand, but without pretension.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2022
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On that front, The Wrath of Becky delivered without pretension.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Mar. 2023
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That pretension extends beyond the title, with the movie opening with a quote from Plato.
—Kimber Myers, latimes.com, 20 July 2017
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Yes, great beach towns run up and down the California coastline, but Solana Beach stands out for its utter lack of pretension.
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2021
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Ginza Iwa Ginza Iwa is high-end sushi without the pretension.
—Melinda Joe, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
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Expect the elements of a swanky Italian restaurant in SoHo — a long granite bar, a wood-plank floor — but not the pretension.
—Bryan Miller, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2013
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Logan is used to things being handed to him on a silver platter, and his pretension drives a wedge between them.
—Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2022
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Where True Detective could be heady to the point of pretension, Night Country is humanistic.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
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In person, Pierce is gently disarming, with none of the intellectual pretension of Niles Crane.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
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