poseur

Craig is no Nick Adams, but did Sternbergh project his own impostor syndrome onto Daisy’s poseur husband?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

You would call Urban Meyer a poseur, but he’s too evasive to hold any pose for long.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021

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

From Golf Digest ● May 6, 2020

I’m not going to be a poseur and say, “Yes, I love this period, blah blah blah,” but I felt that his art was truly beautiful.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

“OK. Let’s see who the real poseur is,” he said.

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

The art world may be full of poseurs, pretentious twits, rapacious entrepreneurs and the forces of corporate homogenization, but in key ways, it is still a different social and economic world than the movie business.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019

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

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos