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/pˈəʊsɜː/
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[ US /ˈpoʊzɝ, ˌpoʊˈzɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpoʊzɝ, ˌpoʊˈzɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
How To Use poseur In A Sentence
- Maybe he was afraid his film wasn't yet arty enough for the poseurs at the festivals.
- Thank goodness for the debunkers like Hymes who ferret out the frauds and expose the poseurs.
- I think that was all probably kind of childish and stupid but by this basic standard (a poseur is one who postures) isn’t the whole New Republic thing (with the exception of the unabashedly lib pieces) pretty much a national journal of poseurdom? joe from Lowell Says: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
- En fait on voit pas sur la foto mais la chambre etait totalement vide puisqu'on attendait le poseur de lino ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
- Maybe he was afraid his film wasn't yet arty enough for the poseurs at the festivals.
- Some call them a joke, poseurs who pastiche the look, moves and sound of classic, brothel-creeping rock'n'roll; others call them the coolest band in the world.
- - Spotted in Engadget: Let it be known: we liked the Zune HD beforeit was popular, before all the poseurs jumped on the bandwagon with their tight-fitting jeans and their hairstyles. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
- … the Amazing Larri, ‘a prestidigitator, an escapist extraordinaire, and the greatest living exposeur.’
- More important, Wells presents the data that make the case that Ellsberg is a mythomaniac and a poseur.
- Although a lot more rock elements can be heard on this third album, it's when they bash away at punk that they really show up the major-label pop punkers as the poseurs that they are.