pretensively

English edit

pretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)

In a pretensive manner.
- 1876, Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Christ and His Salvation, page 263:
  Let us not be too much taken, my friends, by the typology in which our gospel is here and there so feebly and pretensively dressed — the low perceptions, and the short culture, always putting their cheap honors and ornaments upon it.