poseur
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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
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
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
Like trolls and sanctimonious poseurs, influencers goose Twitter's algorithm by appealing to base instincts.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
The irony is that, as awful as he is, he’s the only one left at the end of the action to grieve the useless poseurs he hated.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Which ones were the real artists and which ones were the poseurs?
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Vocabulary lists containing poseur
English Words Derived from French, List 10
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