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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 nature of the American political system propagates scads of lawyers and poseurs who blather on endlessly, promising everything and delivering little.
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Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
Nobody made videos in those primitive days, nobody except weird Brit poseurs and art freaks and thirsty postpunk eccentrics, so the network was forced to play them all.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
16 Nov. 2025
Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
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Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 Nov. 2025
There’s also a conspiracy that catches fire on social media to make Superman look like a poseur.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
8 July 2025
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Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
Nobody made videos in those primitive days, nobody except weird Brit poseurs and art freaks and thirsty postpunk eccentrics, so the network was forced to play them all.
—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
16 Nov. 2025
Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
—
Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 Nov. 2025
There’s also a conspiracy that catches fire on social media to make Superman look like a poseur.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poseur
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To add to the challenge, Brady also left his mark on the latest pretender to his crown.
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Dogs can tell the difference between an actual alpha and a pretender.
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Others estimate that $500 billion in federal spending is diverted by charlatans each year.
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To this day, a portion of the left-wing Democratic elite views Obama as a charlatan who hoodwinked their voters into supporting him.
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But the arrival of Buc-ee's supercharged the trend and spawned imitators like Wally's, which has three 50,000-square-foot locations in the Midwest, with plans for more.
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The frontier labs keep shipping the next capability while the imitators are still training on the last one, and the value keeps accruing to whoever is ahead rather than to whoever copied the leader's previous answers.
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This stops deepfakes and imposters.
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Savannah continues to ask the public for help locating her missing mother, while an imposter who sent fraudulent ransom demands has been arrested.
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To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.
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Billionaire Michael Saylor developed the playbook at his company, Strategy, which built a stockpile, exploded in value and spawned more than 200 copycats.
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His pizza is, indeed, extraordinary, particularly the spicy Star Luca with ricotta filling its points, which launched any number of copycats.
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Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
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Godard might have come across as a species of poseur – a pretentious, quote-spouting mountebank – but his way of seeing was genuinely new.
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Congo fans helped pack out The Stadium Usually Known as Mercedes-Benz on Saturday (even without their beloved Patrice Lumumba impersonator).
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The potential perils of this were apparent in Delaware, where a Caesar Rodney impersonator was manning the booth (the Caesar Rodney Institute was the sponsor).
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“Poseur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poseur. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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