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Word entry · 6 letters

poseur

Best crossword clue

"Affected pretender"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /pəʊˈzʊə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted eoprsuStarts with PEnds with R1 clues
1P2O3S4E5U6R

Definitions

  1. a person who habitually pretends to be something they are not

Word origin

Borrowed from French poseur.

Used in a sentence

  • He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
  • She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
  • 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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