Pretentiously

They stray too far from their area of expertise and engage in pretentiously written, self-important speculation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In your usage, 'review' means to read something over, furrow one's brows dramatically, and then announce pretentiously, "Looks OK to ME ..." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Outside of the pretentiously fashion conscious who feel they need to spend more on certain items, no one purposefully spends more on a product than they have to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"La B ê te" is a wan pastiche of Moli è re whose pancake-flat couplets rattle on endlessly, pointlessly and — above all — pretentiously. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)

Add to that the fact that Paolo Giordano is the right side of 30 and that writing is, for him, but a hobby (he's actually a particle physicist) and you'll understand why I was tightening up my laces to give his pretentiously titled tome a good kicking. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being pretentiously condescending to people doesn't make you suddenly right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After years of over-the-top Disney birthday, the whole high school teenage hang-out-birthday scene, and the exuberantly drunk and pretentiously planned college birthday, I will take the quiet and intimate birthday dinner over anything else. ❋ College Candy (2011)

He preferred to be understood more simply: "They were called movies," he more than once said to me, "and I made them move"—perhaps better and less pretentiously than any of his peers, especially after he signed on at Warner Bros. and entered his glory years with "The Roaring Twenties" 1939, a James Cagney gangster film. ❋ Richard Schickel (2011)

“Oh, really?” said the administrator pretentiously. ❋ Ivan R. (2011)

For horror fans who can't bear to watch as defanged vampires and cuddly werewolves make goo-goo eyes over some girl with shiny hair, there's still one monster who resists taming: You will never catch a zombie mooning pretentiously over his true love. ❋ Yvonne Zipp (2010)

Or phrased less pretentiously: being able to name what we're feeling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jean-Marc Puissant's giant revolving-screen set derives, the program pretentiously tells us, from everything from images of sacred sites in Jerusalem, to Mark Rothko paintings and ruined desert cities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You can do that for a lot less than Adeline Adeline's $825 black Dutch World War I era-looking Batavus with its pretentiously practical skirt guard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the episode, which also features guest turns by Peter York and Peter Bogdanavich, Ted crashes a snobby high-society party to show off how pretentiously intellectual he can be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So the twerpistas who refer to people who disapprove of homosexuality as though it were a voluntary condition as "homophobic" are laughably, pretentiously wrong. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is rare to be reminded that actual change is possible through the established mechanisms by which the various fictions of government have ended up operating, but that is what occasionally happens, and when it does, those of us who have such contempt for governments as to pretentiously declare them to be "fictions" ought to admit to it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I used to think they were a smart, edgy, fun group of people to hang out with... but as soon as they realized I didn't have anything to offer them in terms of getting more publicity or a book deal or an [art gallery] gig, they stopped talking to me. I don't even know why I try to be their friend anymore! Pretentious [twits]." - - - Dude #1: "I really like [the Three Stooges]!" Dude #2: "Whatever, they're so pretentious." Dude #1: "Do you even know what that word means?" ❋ Buster Foodcube (2011)

Pete: "hey, listen to this. it's post-hardcore emomathglitch rock. The lyrics really reveal the [prerequisite] [existentialism] of the singers inner hades!" Ed: "do you even [know what that means]" Pete: "um... well, no" Ed: "you're so pretentious" ❋ Intheflesh (2005)

person A "we go to such an such [cafe] for coffee" person B "really? I hate it there, everyone is so [pretentious]" person A "really? Even the middle aged people and young mothers with children? What are they pretending to be? Are they pretending to drink coffee? Is it pretend coffee in an empty cup? How could a business run on that [principal]?" ❋ Apretentiousperson (2012)

Asshole 1: "So prior to meeting you at this location, I was involved in an [altercation] of the sexual kind with my girlfriend, it was tremendously refreshing and pleasing to certain [glands] within my physical being." Asshole 2: "You're being pretentious" Asshole 3: "Pot and [kettle]" ❋ Thedefineguy1 (2012)

a) Look I have the same boots as you now! That makes me a [true Punk]/Goth/Rocker/insert generic [group name]. b) You didn't like my poem? Well you probably didn't understand it. It was very deep. i) I am a goth I love HIM. ii) I have a degree in Philosophy...I therefore know a little more about [theology] than you could. Another Example: My definition of "pretentious" is much better than the others on this site because I have an A in English. Pretentious people often have no sense of humour and never laugh at themselves. ❋ Mike (2005)

Take your pick: A) The blonde in [American Beauty], Angela Hayes, lied about having lost her virginity and being sex-mad. In fact, she was an insecure virgin, and worried about what people would think of her. So she pretended to be a slut. She was pretentious. B) The [lonely boy] in American Beauty, [Ricky Fitts], who thought the plastic bag in the wind was beautiful couldn't really have thought that, he just wanted to be different from other people, and was pretending to be deep. He was pretentious. ❋ Khcvb (2010)

eg. Tom-Hey isn't that Megan an [arrogant bitch], Steve-Yeah mate, needs to take her [head out] of her own arse. Tom-Yeah how [pretentious] ❋ TommyDLW (2012)

Person A: god she is such a [fucking cunt] Person B: yeah she's pretty [pretentious] [if you ask me] ❋ Whycantmynamebetrash (2018)

AF: Doubt, give reason to smile. Guilt hears false pretenses. me: What!? AF: [The wind] caressed my face. me: Your pretentiousness makes [me want] to [staple] your mouth shut. ❋ Ohohohohohoh (2009)

[James] P. has called [Mike] M. [pretentious] while he himself acts upon the same precociousness. ❋ Boring Payne (2010)