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Pretentiousness by extremely attractive miss (3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

air shot

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'miss' is the definition.
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'pretentiousness by extremely attractive' is the wordplay.
'pretentiousness' becomes 'airs' (I've seen this before).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'extremely attractive' becomes 'hot' (I am not sure about the 'extremely' bit.).
'airs'+'hot'='AIR SHOT'

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(Another definition for air shot that I've seen is " Golf stroke that misses the ball".)

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