7 Verbs to Use for the Word pretentions

I believe he means to bring me, through Necessity, to resign my Pretentions to him for some Provision for my Life; but I will die first.

He affected inordinate pretentions of profundity.

He represented, with reason, how prejudicial it was to government, that the command of ships and colonies should be given as caprice dictates, and to gratify the pretentions of vain pride, while experienced officers were overlooked, or disdainfully repulsed, condemned to figure on the lists of the half-pay, of the reforms, and even before the time, which would have called them to a necessary, or at least legal repose.

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

He was absolutely intrepid before the thrusts of our sharpest examiners and as I have said could bluff it boldly and dexterously where his knowledge failed; then the odd cynicism with which he turned down great pretentions and sometimes matters of serious import, had a Napoleonic cast.

Gowrie in Scotland, 'twas his maine pretention: Was not he honest, too?

Pastoral, relying for its distinctive features upon the accidents rather than the essentials of life, failed to justify its pretentions as a serious and independent form of art.

7 Verbs to Use for the Word  pretentions