only 1 use
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
acting more impressive than is deserved
- Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance.Chapter 8 (52% in)
There are no more uses of "pretentious" in Northanger Abbey.
Typical Usage
(best examples)