pretension

IPA: pritˈɛnʃʌn

To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
(construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

Examples of "pretension" in Sentences

Come here, and there's no pretension.
It strengthens the royalist pretension.
The pretension to quality ratio is amazing.
It is judgemental, whatever pretensions to the contrary.
As an engineer my tolerance for pretension is generally lower that that of the academics!
Midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, there's a wine country without attitude and pretension.
The almost complete lack of pretension is wonderful, though you can certainly find a bit of that in the gated communities.
A Reader's Manifesto: Whatever happens, the old American scorn for pretension is bound to reassert itself someday, and dear God, let it be soon.
The moment this pretension is abandoned the sword will drop from our grasp, and we shall be ready to enter into treaties of amity and commerce mutually beneficial.
The first target of Everett's satire is the writing of fiction itself, which is portrayed implicitly as an enterprise saturated in pretension and moribund assumptions.
Conservative status pretension might work differently, but status pretension is status pretension, and as a general matter, because the vast majority of educationally-based upwardly mobile classes in this country is liberal, it applies well to liberal habits.