pretentiously

1 Although he had reached the age of gastronomic fastidiousness, and especially abhorred spoiling the appetite between meals, Truyn good-naturedly accepted this pretentiously humble invitation.

2 So just to recap, "Stalker" will be pretentiously moralizing about the grim realities of stalking while exploiting the crime's most perverse and gruesome aspects in an effort to be psychologically thrilling.

3 There is definite style here, though none of it pretentious, and each suite has its own kitchenette to offer freedom to all who stay.

4 The term describes a pretentiously showy or impressive facade to draw attention away from dirty conditions.

它表示自负的华丽或令人印象深刻的假象来吸引远离肮脏情况的注意.

5 Particularly, the case of Financai Management is rendered pretentiously.

特别是财务管理的案例设计总是比较虚伪。

6 It is hard to be pretentious or elevated in Yiddish, and easy to poke fun.

7 The characters blather away pretentiously about wine, sex and the disappearance of classical references and Shakespeare quotations in crossword puzzles.

8 She made no show of sympathy, she did not ask, as some pretentiously hospitable people do every morning, if she were comfortable and had all she wished.

9 We spend part of our busy little lives in somewhat pretentiously undertaking to report its dicta.

10 The hourlong work, which takes place on, over and behind a marvelous mini-ski slope of a set, is often raw and rude, and it can get pretentiously obscure.

11 It would all sound very pretentiously noble in anticipation, and though she would have every right to laugh, he did not want her to laugh.

12 They grimace and make smutty cracks; they talk pretentiously about Dogme 95.

13 He returned to Joan with—until he recrossed the threshold of his study—a thought ironic concerning the inconsistency of Helena's veneration of caste with her union to fat, good-natured, pretentiously commonplace George Tankerville.

14 Although loved by some from the beginning, it was banned from the major cinemas in her country and cut down by the New York Times’ Bosley Crowther who called it “pretentiously kookie and laboriously overblown.”

15 "When you 've done with the garlic, old boy, I 've some work for you," said Dalton, crossing his arms pretentiously.

16 Yes, there are certain companies or hiring managers who pretentiously recruit from prestigious schools.

17 But there are also dead spots, even in the recent work, prominent among them an indulgent free-form documentary about the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, pretentiously narrated by Derek Jacobi and full of overwrought music.

18 To stop acting or speaking foolishly or pretentiously . Often used in the imperative .

住口，别胡扯停止动作或愚蠢地或狂妄地谈话。常用于祈使语气。

19 Or, for that matter, why Amal Clooney pretentiously accented her black Dior gown with a pair of white kid opera gloves.

20 The same young boys, awkwardly trekking through puberty, who would pretentiously judge the appearance of young girls, also awkwardly trekking through puberty.

1 自命不凡

pretentious stuck-up priggish swollen-headed importantly pompously priggishness self-glorification

2 做作

plastic camp fake precious affected unnatural pretentious studied la-di-da artificially unnaturally affectedly pretension artificiality preciousness pretentiousness

3 自命不凡地

importantly pompously

4 做作地

artificially unnaturally affectedly

5 虚夸

rhetorical high-sounding pomposity