One who affects a false attitude

Usage examples of poseur.

For a moment he had doubted Poirot and suspected the little man of being past his job, a poseur only.

Oscar Wilde was a poseur himself, and ironic echoes of my performance extend through my own work and through his.

I saw at once, even after fifteen years, that he was a poseur and a charlatan.

My lies made me a bigger poseur than Miss Hyacinth Anasta-sia Wallace.

She was beginning to think that this facetious poseur might be capable of almost anything.

Why are punks and gangsta poseurs more authentically black than those who carry themselves with dignity and respect?

Deserted children on a deserted landscape, they swoop above the ruins, a flying orgy, a rainbow saturnalia, an ecstasy of soaring poseurs, punks, and wiggers, who consecrate their youths to a scorned and ancient vocation: to transcend their mortality, to wrest one moment from eternity and soar above the defeated earth.

It was impossible for Michael to tell if they meant business or if they, like him, were poseurs in the jungle.

You see, Arthurungrateful, backbiting young poseur that he is, I discovered too latefeared me and what I might do were I to reach Edinburgh and the ear of the cardinal there.

Royalty Theatre: a Windmill show with sarky sketches and nudes that moved, suitable for trendy poseur and carriage trade alike.

He is, in brief, a hollow and incompetent creature, a strutter and poseur, a popinjay, a pretty one.

How often the woman or man with a God-given sense of the beautiful, the fitting, harmony between costume and setting, is described as poseur or poseuse by those who lack the same instinct.

Pennendos, I had much liefer have the foot of a generous and forgiving stranger upon mine than that of a grasping, greedy, cruel, arrogant poseur of a near relative.

Apol, Lia, Cloe, and their band of poseurs had convinced them all that I had come to an untimely end in a mine cave-in.

Heritagist poseurs trying to buy themselves the illusion that their neurotic drug-addicted promiscuous bulimic dyslexic brats had one single grain of brains or talent.