How to Use poseur in a Sentence

poseur

noun

• The Team Rocket stand-in is a gang of lovably useless hip-hop poseurs.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2017
• Jared could not possibly read a guy like Comey as anything but a supreme poseur.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
• This is not to say that all of the nineties’ non-black hip-hop devotees were poseurs, or that sincere hip-hop fans cannot grow up to be lawyers.
  — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 2 May 2018
• The plot is fueled by arch archetypes that infuriate the main character, Alceste, who prides himself on telling these poseurs the truth, no matter the cost.
  — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• As the zero-waste concept gains steam, there will inevitably be poseurs, or restauranteurs aiming to tap an eco-conscious customer base without putting in the real work.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• Fallaci was sometimes criticized for being a poseur and a narcissist.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• The series was more about Versace’s killer, the deadly narcissistic poseur Andrew Cunanan, than about Versace.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Rather than the somewhat-cartoonish poseur of some productions, Schrempp and McKillip turn Jaques into a man who compartmentalizes.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
• O’Reilly has so far proved to be remarkably immune to scandal, perhaps because his fans are so invested in the idea of him as a paragon of ornery decency, doing daily battle against poseurs, schemers, and idiots.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Casey Jane Ellison has made a comedy-slash-art career out of walking the very fine line between her abiding love for and hilarious mockery of the art world—or at least of its sycophants, poseurs, and profiteers.
  — Vogue, 6 Feb. 2018
• Yet Hollywood has turned away from laconic tough guys toward newcomers such as Bruce Lee, an arrogant little poseur who picks a fight with Cliff while bragging about his own prowess.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
• Facebook’s ranking in the Apple App Store went up after #deletefacebook went viral, probably from refusenik poseurs reinstalling the app after deleting it.
  — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
• There is no evidence to impeach, and various unctuous congressional-committee poseurs have acknowledged that they are reduced to the Steele dossier.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• Chaplin the promethean filmmaker was also his own worst enemy, a comedic and business genius, a political naif, even a poseur in certain ways, but also a man who could never escape either his childhood or his attraction to childlike women.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• Laying it off on senior administration officials will no longer fly given the liars, hustlers, incompetents, poseurs and mountebanks who dominate this West Wing.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Because in rock ’n’ roll mystery and legend seem to go hand-in-hand, appreciation for its unsung heroes often adds another layer to every fan’s favorite argument: self-indulgent poseur or underrated genius.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• This is a group of anti-theistic, ultra-materialist, narcissistic poseurs, hedonists of self-celebration.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024