Definition for Pretentiously:

• in a pretentious manner; " this author writes pretentiously"

Synonyms for Pretentiously:

• adv.

  •all (adverb)
  • pretentiously.
  •egotistically (adverb)
  • arrogantly,
  • haughtily,
  • loftily,
  • selfishly,
  • self-importantly.
  •ostentatiously (adverb)
  • egotistically,
  • proudly,
  • showily,
  • pompously.
  •pretentiously (adverb)
  • deceitfully,
  • stagily,
  • fraudulently,
  • artificially,
  • affectedly,
  • histrionically,
  • Posingly,
  • synthetically,
  • Counterfeitly,
  • theatrically,
  • falsely.

• Other synonyms:

  •adv
  • airily,
  • boastfully,
  • conceitedly,
  • ostentatiously.

Antonyms for Pretentiously:

• adv.

  • all
    unpretentiously.

Pretentiously Sentence Examples:

• Some were frankly vulgar, some were pretentiously genteel, a good many were young men of gentle birth from the public schools and universities.

• Those charms and amulets, those dark gnomic aphorisms which constitute the stock - in - trade of all religious cheap - jacks, the bribe of future life, the sacerdotal tinge with its complement of mendacity, the secrecy of doctrine, the pretentiously - mysterious self - retirement, the " sacred quaternion," the bean - humbug .