pretentious

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(idea) by bunkey (10.3 mon) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:41:44

Silken, dilated shades of ashen gray,
Play drum and pipe to this longwinded day
The moments reduced to revelries worth
Grand smile sends warning for Damocles derth
A breath of pale sentience and politick's lack
Paints sorrow as judgement, and cups fill'd black.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:13:33

Pre*ten"tious (?), a. [Cf. F. pr'etentieux. See Pretend.]

Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

-- Pre*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Pre*ten"tious*ness, n.

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