English Dictionary

pretensively

副詞

In a pretensive manner.

日本語の意味

見せかけの態度で / 気取った様子で / 虚飾を伴ったやり方で

She laughed pretensively at his joke, though it failed to amuse anyone.

彼女は気取って彼の冗談に笑ったが、誰も面白がってはいなかった。

意味（1）

In a pretensive manner.

Let us not be too much taken, my friends, by the typology in which our gospel is here and there so feebly and pretensively dressed — the low perceptions, and the short culture, always putting their cheap honors and ornaments upon it.

more pretensively （ comparative ）

most pretensively （ superlative ）