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comparative more pretentiously, superlative most pretentiously
In a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction. examples
Ostentatiously; in a manner intended to impress others. quotations examples
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.
1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915
In a manner demanding of skill or daring. examples