(chiefly, US) Pretentious.
: I used half a lifetime reading the critics, and while I found the content pretensive I found the style somehow pleasurable […].
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(now, rare) Pretended; feigned.
1967, Charles Bukowski, letter, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 95:
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