How to Use poseur in a Sentence
poseur
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The Team Rocket stand-in is a gang of lovably useless hip-hop poseurs.
—Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2017
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Jared could not possibly read a guy like Comey as anything but a supreme poseur.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
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This is not to say that all of the nineties’ non-black hip-hop devotees were poseurs, or that sincere hip-hop fans cannot grow up to be lawyers.
—Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 2 May 2018
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The plot is fueled by arch archetypes that infuriate the main character, Alceste, who prides himself on telling these poseurs the truth, no matter the cost.
—Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
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As the zero-waste concept gains steam, there will inevitably be poseurs, or restauranteurs aiming to tap an eco-conscious customer base without putting in the real work.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
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Fallaci was sometimes criticized for being a poseur and a narcissist.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
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The series was more about Versace’s killer, the deadly narcissistic poseur Andrew Cunanan, than about Versace.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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Rather than the somewhat-cartoonish poseur of some productions, Schrempp and McKillip turn Jaques into a man who compartmentalizes.
—Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
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O’Reilly has so far proved to be remarkably immune to scandal, perhaps because his fans are so invested in the idea of him as a paragon of ornery decency, doing daily battle against poseurs, schemers, and idiots.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
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Casey Jane Ellison has made a comedy-slash-art career out of walking the very fine line between her abiding love for and hilarious mockery of the art world—or at least of its sycophants, poseurs, and profiteers.
—Vogue, 6 Feb. 2018
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Yet Hollywood has turned away from laconic tough guys toward newcomers such as Bruce Lee, an arrogant little poseur who picks a fight with Cliff while bragging about his own prowess.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
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Facebook’s ranking in the Apple App Store went up after #deletefacebook went viral, probably from refusenik poseurs reinstalling the app after deleting it.
—Susan Crawford, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
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There is no evidence to impeach, and various unctuous congressional-committee poseurs have acknowledged that they are reduced to the Steele dossier.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
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Chaplin the promethean filmmaker was also his own worst enemy, a comedic and business genius, a political naif, even a poseur in certain ways, but also a man who could never escape either his childhood or his attraction to childlike women.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
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Laying it off on senior administration officials will no longer fly given the liars, hustlers, incompetents, poseurs and mountebanks who dominate this West Wing.
—David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
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Because in rock ’n’ roll mystery and legend seem to go hand-in-hand, appreciation for its unsung heroes often adds another layer to every fan’s favorite argument: self-indulgent poseur or underrated genius.
—Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
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This is a group of anti-theistic, ultra-materialist, narcissistic poseurs, hedonists of self-celebration.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
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