as in pretender
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a person who dresses or behaves in a deceptive way that is meant to impress other people
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Recent Examples of poseur
The Pogues, poor kids from the island, are at constant odds with the Kooks, the rich poseurs.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2023
As his profligacy and parties flashed bigger and brighter, his guests saw in Low no mere party-boy poseur, but a man of apparently limitless means, whatever their origin, whose interests could even enhance their own ambitions.
—Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
The seats just don't get it, but our guess is that the target customers for the Olds and the Chevy don't worry too much about seats and ergonomics—that's for Porsche people and other poseurs.
—David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
Kylo Ren is the J. Alfred Prufrock of space: a self-conscious poseur, needled by his own insecurities.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2023
As his profligacy and parties flashed bigger and brighter, his guests saw in Low no mere party-boy poseur, but a man of apparently limitless means, whatever their origin, whose interests could even enhance their own ambitions.
—Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
The seats just don't get it, but our guess is that the target customers for the Olds and the Chevy don't worry too much about seats and ergonomics—that's for Porsche people and other poseurs.
—David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
Kylo Ren is the J. Alfred Prufrock of space: a self-conscious poseur, needled by his own insecurities.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poseur
Noun
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The bot will see you now: Therapists in the U.S. are getting ready for a battle with A.I. pretenders.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Without a bit more heart and soul, the spinoff is just a pretender in a nicely tailored suit.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There was too much history for anyone to dismantle, let alone a charlatan like Hitler.—
Luke Berryman,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Other contributor: Conor O’Neill (Top photo: Adam Davy/PA Images via Getty Images) Comments W Will S. · 2h 34m ago Because Maresca is a one trick pony charlatan and half of Chelsea’s first team players are more interested in Snapchat & Twitter.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Next comes the financial institution impostor phase.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
18 Feb. 2025
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In Rankin’s short, Rankin himself plays an impostor posing as the not-so-famous Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Makers of copycat weight-loss drugs and digital health companies that sell them are bracing for upheaval now that the Food and Drug Administration has declared Novo Nordisk's blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy are no longer in shortage.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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In 2022, over 109,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses, roughly 76,000 of which were caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl or its copycats.—
Gabrielle M. Etzel,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 July 2024
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Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Jan. 2024
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Milla — a young woman who feels disillusioned by doctors that treat her like a recalcitrant child, directing even conversations about her treatment to her father instead of her — finds false security in quacks selling enemas and juice cleanses.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s Insane Clown Posse Cabinet is very close to being filled with a cadre of fools and quacks, goons and thugs.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Poseur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poseur. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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