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What does pretentiously mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pretentiously? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
  2. Ostentatiously; in a manner intended to impress others.
  3. In a manner demanding of skill or daring.
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The important thing is to get ridiculously and pretentiously creative, and let everyone know what you're doing and what it all represents.
This movie, on the other hand, looks like it's going to be either a new horror classic that shapes the genre, or one of the most pretentiously awful films of all time.
By then, pretentiously revolutionary political names had descended to the world of crack.
I particularly liked affecting a Gallic air and posing pretentiously with them in the library.
Yet it's not pretentiously overblown nor dragged down by fanboy baggage.
The pretentiously named Bones was taller and skinnier, and he always carried brass knuckles in his pocket.

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