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pretensions
verb
(pre-ten-sion)
prestress
pretensions
noun
(pre-ten-sion)
an allegation of doubtful value : pretext
pretensions
noun
(pre-ten-sion)
a claim or an effort to establish a claim
pretensions
noun
(pre-ten-sion)
a claim or right to attention or honor because of merit
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pretensions
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pretentiousness
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pretense
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pretence
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pretenses
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ambitions
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aspirations
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desires
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intentions
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assertions
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claims
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arguments
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demands
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contentions
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representations
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entitlements
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allegations
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wishes
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pleadings
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submissions
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pretences
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pomposity
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affectations
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grandiloquence
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pompousness
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snobbery
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snootiness
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conceits
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anglophilia
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haughtiness
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poseur
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notions
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snobbishness
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pieties
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snobbism
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preconceptions
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frippery
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intellectualism
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trappings
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egotism
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bombast
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smugness
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fustiness
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dilettantism
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condescension
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pedantry
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conventionality
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claptrap
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illusions
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daftness
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didacticism
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twaddle
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superficiality
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artifice
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attitudinizing
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sentimentalism
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knowingness
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banality
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stodginess
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elitism
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sanctimony
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fatuousness
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grandeur
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scruples
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bourgeois
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superciliousness
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blandness
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stolidity
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ponderousness
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vainglory
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vaunting
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insipidness
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philistinism
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amour propre
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hokum
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middlebrow
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priggishness
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exoticness
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historicism
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ghastliness
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foppery
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pseudo
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popularism
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hypocrisies
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virtuousness
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panache
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tawdriness
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idiocies
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sanctimoniousness
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popinjay
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flummery
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glibness
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moralizing
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idolisation
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implausibility
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prudery
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showiness
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suavity
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politesse
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snob
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falseness
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pretensions
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