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

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

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

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

But perhaps you have read all this and thought: this Times critic is as bad as the poseurs at the fair!

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2019

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