The books of this literary poseur were widely read but they are now forgotten.
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Poseur
//poʊˈzʊəɹ//
Synonyms for "poseur" (72 found)
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Related words (36)
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29 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- позьор noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Dutch
1 entries- aansteller noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
French
4 entries- crâneur noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- crâneuse noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- poseur noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- poseuse noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
German
4 entries- Angeber noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- Angeberin noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- Effekthascher noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- Möchtegern noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Norwegian
1 entries- posør noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Polish
2 entries- pozer noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- pozerka noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Russian
2 entries- позёр noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- позёрка noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Spanish
4 entries- impostor noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- posero noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- postureador noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
- postureadora noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Swedish
1 entries- posör noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Turkish
1 entries- pozör noun (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
Source: wiktionary
She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
Source: wiktionary
But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.
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