Example Sentences

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And directors Bailey and Barbato seem intent on casting Louisville as a place of poseurs and pretensions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Like trolls and sanctimonious poseurs, influencers goose Twitter's algorithm by appealing to base instincts.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2022

The irony is that, as awful as he is, he’s the only one left at the end of the action to grieve the useless poseurs he hated.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

Yet there is a cattle-call cacophony of pretenders and poseurs babbling on incessantly with false insight into LeBron’s latest disposition.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2019

Which ones were the real artists and which ones were the poseurs?

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos