poseur

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Golf Digest • May 6, 2020

Yet he’s too often regarded as a tough guy, a poseur Mafia don who’s osmotically absorbed too many gangster movies.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2019

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