How could you expect, at a meal so pretentiously forced, of such affected joviality, to hear Jerrold ask the butler for "some of the old, not the elder, port"?
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Katy Stutz, an old soul as lean and as green as a cotton umbrella, had sewed at minimum wage through fourteen years of keeping Lilly daintily and a bit too pretentiously clad.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Characteristic of the locality is a certain row of one-storey cottages-villas, the advertiser calls them-built of white brick, each with one bay window on the ground floor, a window pretentiously fashioned and desiring to be taken for stone, though obviously made of bad plaster.
"The Nether World"
George Gissing