A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not.
1He is a born poseur, and very often has deceived his opponents.
2The canny old poseur was on his way to an immortal martyrdom.
3Grumblings that being a poseur is not as easy as we think.
4It wouldn't have been a fair match: the poseur against the boy wonder.
5Of course the man was a poseur, a most horrid mountebank and ego-maniac.
6This fact fixes Mr. Wells's honesty and proves him to be no poseur.
7That poseur who was drooling all over you at the shoot?
8Not even drugs can save this poseur from his lack of personality and plausibility.
9They were a relief to her-theywere not whispering that she was a poseur.
10And he had an instinctive reliance on her fellow poseur's ability to detect it.
11The kaiser is a poseur in love with himself.
12Let's see who the real poseur is, he said.
13When he uses sailing argot he is instantly seen as a dilettante, poseur, Republican, etc.
14The flaneur, the poseur-ifsuch he was-nolonger appeared.
15His enemies called him a dilettante and a poseur.
16The poseur's mask which he habitually wore slipped aside and the real man peeped out.