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Juvenile paper's lead: 'Advice can be pretentious, in a manner of speaking'

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la-di-da

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'juvenile' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for la-di-da that I've seen before include "Informally, having affected manner of pronunciation" , "Hoity-toity" , "Pretentious, snobbish" , "Affectedly genteel" , "I'd a lad with affected manner or pronunciation" .)

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