pretension

Some may even have the same pretensions to high culture.

The world is his, who can see through its pretension.

He had no pretensions, for example, about his playing ability.

It gets you back to a situation where there are no pretensions.

There are more people who have pretensions that they can do a lot of money.

They will have to wait to find out if it has higher pretensions.

In the end, however, no evidence could be produced to back up his pretensions.

She smiled at his pretensions to power, but said nothing.

Whatever his pretensions, he knew where the real power lay.

They avoid pretension and go right to the heart of the thing.

She would like a man with no pretensions, and they were very rare.

This year, although the Games do not start for another seven weeks, there have been few pretensions.

The man had no pretensions, and he told jokes on himself.

Further, the book made no pretension of being a scientific work.

Whatever pretensions to good looks I might ever have had, they were gone forever.

Now I'm just an old fool with pretensions to learning.

The house is a bit like himself: comfortable and without pretension.

Unlike the other women I've played, however, she had no pretensions.

They bug me with their middle class pretensions, you know what I mean?

"The one I know is a good woman, with no pretensions to dark powers."

He had wit, a good person, and might have pretensions.

"I myself have some pretensions to playing a good game.

"I was just wondering if it's possible to find the real you under all the pretension."

But I will soon put an end to her pretensions!"

On the other hand, it is a little less than its pretensions imply.