'Pretensions' in the Bible

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap.

[misled] by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared as with a branding iron [leaving them incapable of ethical functioning],

traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.