(~s)
1.
If you say that someone has ~s, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the ~s of the art world...
We like him for his honesty, his lack of ~.
N-VAR disapproval
2.
If someone has ~s to something, they claim to be or do that thing.
The city has unrealistic ~s to world-class status...
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, N to n/-ing, N to-inf