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pretension

English

  1. 🔊 a false or unsupportable quality
  2. 🔊 the advancing of a claim
    “his pretension to the crown”
  3. 🔊 the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

Similar words

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