Uttal

  • RP:
    • IPA: /pɹɪˈtɛnʃəsliː/
    • IPA: /pɹəˈtɛnʃəsliː/
  • US:
    • IPA: /pɹɪˈtɛnʃəsliː/
    • IPA: /pɹiːˈtɛnʃəsliː/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adverb

  1. In a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
  2. Ostentatiously; in a manner intended to impress others.
  3. In a manner demanding of skill or daring.

Exempel

  • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore pretentiously
Superlativmost pretentiously

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