poseur

Definitions

From French: pose + -eur (an agent ending, like -er). A poseur is literally 'one who poses' — strikes attitudes and adopts a fake image to impress. The French spelling marks it as borrowed.

Common Collocations

• 1.intellectual poseur假装的知识分子
• 2.dismiss as a poseur斥之为装腔作势的人

Example Sentences

• 1.

  He's a poseur who name-drops to seem important.

• 2.

  Critics dismissed the artist as a mere poseur.