poseur
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Does this purveyor of nonfiction cinema have any real truth to express, or is he just a poseur, a sham, a sellout?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
You would call Urban Meyer a poseur, but he’s too evasive to hold any pose for long.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021
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
He heard their excited argument, and then, an intentional poseur, he shook each paw daintily in turn, stepped delicately down from the rocks, and vanished from the men’s sight.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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
Which ones were the real artists and which ones were the poseurs?
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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English Words Derived from French, List 10
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