Crossword clues for poseur
poseur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poseur \Po`seur"\, n. masc.; pl. Poseurs, Poseuse \Po`seuse"\, n. fem.; pl. Poseuses, [F.] A person who poses or attitudizes, esp. mentally.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who practices affected attitudes," 1866, from French poseur, from verb poser "affect an attitude or pose," from Old French poser "to put, place, set" (see pose (v.1)). The word is English poser in French garb, and thus could itself be considered an affectation.
Wiktionary
n. One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
WordNet
n. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not [syn: poser]
Wikipedia
Poseur (or poser) is a pejorative term, often used in the punk, heavy metal, hip hop, and goth subcultures, or the skateboarding, surfing and jazz communities, to refer to a person who copies the dress, speech, and/or mannerisms of a group or subculture, generally for attaining acceptability within the group or for popularity among various other groups, yet who is deemed not to share or understand the values or philosophy of the subculture.
While this perceived inauthenticity is viewed with scorn and contempt by members of the subculture, the definition of the term and to whom it should be applied is subjective. While the term is most associated with the 1970s- and 1980s-era punk and hardcore subculture, English use of the term originates in the late 19th century.
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.