How to pronounce pretentious
Listen to pretentious in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“pretentious” in real sentences
162 clips in the index · 1 American · 14 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Really pretentious corner.
British Library · hear it here
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That would be pretentious.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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This is sounds so pretentious.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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personally it felt to me too much like the director being like egotistical pretentious and pretentious
MooLer · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pretentious. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.