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
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.
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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
More often than not, a songwriter who sets out to work both sides and the middle of that street comes off like a poseur — a pleaser without much personality.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
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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
More often than not, a songwriter who sets out to work both sides and the middle of that street comes off like a poseur — a pleaser without much personality.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poseur
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Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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What’s interesting about it is that in the book, the Dragon Queen is very obviously a con woman and a charlatan right away, and she was based on someone that’s real.Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
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While that may have been the case, the country’s oligarchs have unwittingly turned this volatile impostor into a folk hero whose power may not diminish even outside the chancellor’s sphere of influence.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2024
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The only people who never feel like impostors are the real impostors.Melody Wilding, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Federal law normally bans pharmacies from making copycat versions of commercially available drugs.Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Eli Lilly quickly started sending cease-and-desist letters to companies selling copycat versions.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2024
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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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Her favorite recording reminded me of a duck’s quack.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Witness the presidential campaign of anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the dangerous attack on medical science by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his quack henchman, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
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“Poseur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poseur. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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