poseur
noun/pəʊˈzʊə(ɹ)/ · /pəʊˈzɜː(ɹ)/
Etymology Borrowed from French poseur.
1
One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
- He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
- She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
2 more examples
- But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.1884, Vernon Lee (pseudonym; Violet Paget), The Countess of Albany, published 1910, page 67:
- I am a poseur and I don't care / I like to make people stare1978, Poly Styrene, “I Am a Poseur”, in Germ Free Adolescents, performed by X-Ray Spex:
- Derived terms
- poseurish
- Related terms
- pretentious, wannabe