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Definition
acting more impressive than is deserved
- He went on, conscious that what he was saying must sound both feeble and pretentious: 'We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it.p. 170.2
There are no more uses of "pretentious" in 1984 by Orwell.
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