poseur

She chanted the couplet cry of the insider outsider: “I am a poseur and I don’t care, I like to make people stare.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

But there's not even a poseur version of it.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2020

Tom Callahan, an ex-Marine, knows a flimflammer, a bugiardo, a poseur, a gasconader when he hears one.

From Golf Digest ● May 6, 2020

Wilde, the clever but somewhat vacuous celebrity poseur, became an increasingly passionate presence on stage and an engaging quote machine for the anarchic American press.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018

I-r0k fancied himself an elite gunter, but he was nothing but an obnoxious poseur.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

They might be poseurs tossing around references to Ginsberg and Bukowski, but the welcome mat the group offers Ed is enticing and inspiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

I have little doubt that he resents real scientists, as poseurs always do when confronted with the real thing.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025

That is, the world is a gullible circus, dragged down by poseurs who appropriate the false values of show business.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

Gunters who wanted help joined a clan, and Aech and I both agreed that clans were for suck-asses and poseurs.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline