Definition of "pretensions" []

• Plural form of pretension. (noun)

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• "Even the true villain of the piece, a perverse megalomaniac with artistic pretensions, is believable."
• "The press, in particular, disliked such audacious pretensions from the middling ranks and contemptuously read her playful dressing as indelicate availability, whereas all of"
• "He shows more particularly what sins the Jews were guilty of, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions (ver. 17 to the end)."