“I particularly liked affecting a Gallic air and posing pretentiously with them in the library.”

“The dialogue is self-consciously clunky, the characters are stereotypes and each section is fronted with a pretentiously redundant quotation.”

“Many of her speeches could sound pretentiously gnomic, or ramblingly incoherent.”

“We have always maintained that the leadership must not have the right to discover, invent, and impose pretendedly new principles and guidelines for the action of the party.”

“The election's anti-constitutional logic cancelled in principle any possibility of the country's peoples having equal status in the pretendedly common state.”

“Those papers are said to have fully established that to spread discord and revolt among the people was the real object of his pretendedly pacific mission.”