poseur
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than their true one.
Origin of poseur
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How to use poseur in a sentence
Only knee-jerk left-wingers and the usual legion of poseurs around the world would dispute this.
Today, the biggest problem for the Hasidim is a bunch of “trustafarian” poseurs on bicycles.
Tunku Varadarajan weighs the arguments of the “trustafarian” poseurs on bicycles and the arguably overdressed Hasidim.
Eternal poseurs themselves, they adjudged his modesty a pose, yet somehow could not forgive it.
Winner Take All | Larry EvansDeep in his heart is a suspicion that people who get enthusiastic about Sir Thomas Browne are vain and conceited poseurs.
Literary Taste: How to Form It | Arnold Bennett
They were devotees of learned music; “poseurs,” others said, who pretended to admire works they did not understand at all.
Musical Memories | Camille Saint-SansPoseurs have said that nature is garish or exaggerated more often than not; but it is a libel.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete | Gilbert Parker"Yes, I am, where poseurs are concerned," said Falloden coldly.
Lady Connie | Mrs. Humphry Ward
British Dictionary definitions for poseur
/ (pəʊˈzɜː) /
a person who strikes an attitude or assumes a pose in order to impress others
Origin of poseur
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