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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(chiefly, US) Pretentious.
: I used half a lifetime reading the critics, and while I found the content pretensive I found the style somehow pleasurable […].
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(now, rare) Pretended; feigned.
Origin: From the participle stem of. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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