poseur
Example Sentences
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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
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
Vocabulary lists containing poseur
English Words Derived from French, List 10
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