5 adjectives to describe pretention

All is false and hollow pretention.

Caesar and Pompey made not a warmer division in the Roman Republick than those heroines, their country women, the Faustina and Cuzzoni, blew up in our commonwealth of academical musick by their implacable pretentions to superiority.[A]

He affected inordinate pretentions of profundity.

They complain of the want of interest in their proceedings on the part of many of the leading commercial houses, of the lamentable condition of commerce, of the inattention of their "mother," Spain, to the plausible pretentions of this her daughter, animated though she was by the most fervent patriotism.

The latter was less bigoted than the master, affected less arrogance and admitted more worldly pretentions.

5 adjectives to describe  pretention