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Six example sentences with pretentious, each labelled with its topic.
Twelve words of description for a single radish struck the reviewer as pretentious, especially at that price.
Cooking
The wall text was pretentious enough to need translating, three paragraphs of theory attached to a plain white square.
Art
The columns are pretentious on a two-story office block, borrowing a temple's grandeur for a building full of insurance clerks.
Architecture
Critics called the novel pretentious for opening with forty pages of untranslated Latin and a chart of the author's dreams.
Literature
The band's third album struck fans as pretentious, a double record about the meaning of time with no song under nine minutes.
Music
Calling the receptionist a Director of First Impressions struck new hires as pretentious, and everyone kept saying receptionist.
Business
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