He was now a small-to-medium-time hood, a tough customer whose slacks and shoes showed social pretensions.
At heart Jo'burg is a mining camp - with social pretensions.
Twain also satirizes the social pretensions of the newly rich.
He is sick and tired of his wife's social pretensions, her chilliness in bed, her snobbish, moralizing friends.
She has no pretensions of any kind for that matter, intellectual, artistic or social.
It was a tennis, golf, motor-car, motor-boat party, given by his great-aunt, a lady of social pretensions.
The exhibition, which runs through Jan. 16, explores the sometimes uneasy interplay between social pretensions and comfort.
The illustrations capture their rooting and snuffling and high social pretensions.
That will knock all the social pretensions out of him!
She was popular, but also in the sense that she was working class, had no social pretensions, was not bourgeoise.