Sentence:  Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those <WSD>pretentiously</WSD> phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Ostentatiously; in a manner intended to impress others.