Wannabe

She's a wannabe actress.

Tom is a wannabe actor.

Tankies are wannabe cops.

Ziri barged into Rima's room, dressed like a wannabe model.

Tom is a wannabe poet.

On today's maps, there are plenty of wannabe countries that are struggling for recognition.

The wannabe dictator poses an existential threat to democracy.

Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.

Most of the people Hiro knows are will-bes or wannabes.

Who the hell is that woman messing in my files? GET HER OUT OF HERE! I won't have my system messed up by some wannabe "expert" who'll be gone next week! Damn strangers who think they know it all but don't care about what we're really trying to achieve here.

He had the reputation of a wannabe hardman, riding his cousin's coattails.

Bigger, mongrelly and black, he was clearly a Doberman wannabe.