英语单词“pretentiousness”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 pretentiousness 释义 pretentiousnessnoun[U]disapprovinguk

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/pr??ten.??s.n?s/(alsopretension)thequalityoftryingto make yourselfappearorsoundmoreimportantorcleverthan you are:自命不凡，矫饰，炫耀I couldn'tbelievethe pretentiousness of thebook.我简直不敢相信这本书是如此装腔作势。Her writingtendstowardsabstractionand pretentiousness.她的写作风格偏抽象化，也颇多矫饰。Seepretentious

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• Ithoughtit adelightfulnovelthatcontainsno pretentiousness.
• There was akindof pretentiousness to thecriticsreviewsof theplay.
• The pretentiousness andpricesat the newcoffeeshopare arealletdown.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Affected & insincere

• affectation
• affected
• affectedly
• archly
• artificial
• feyness
• forced
• fustian
• glib
• glibly
• posey
• preciously
• preciousness
• precocious
• precociousness
• theatrically
• tokenism
• tokenistic
• two-faced
• ultra-slick

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(Definition ofpretentiousnessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/pretentiousness##