pretensively

English

Etymology

pretensive +‎ -ly

Adverb

pretensively (comparative more pretensively, superlative most pretensively)

1. 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.