poseur
noun[C]
disapproving(alsoposer)uk/ˈpəʊ.zər/us/ˈpoʊ.zɚ/someone whopretendsto be something they are not, or to havequalitiesthat they do not have:
故作姿态的人，装腔作势的人Youlooklike arealposeur inyourfancysportscar!坐在昂贵的赛车里，你看起来真够招摇的！
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poseur
Thrash adherents feel that poseurs have not developed an appreciation for the true aesthetic of metal, and must therefore be accorded less prestige with the subculture.
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Would we then have the farcical situation where the bar roomposeurwould be prosecutable in respect of a non-offence over a non-event?
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The concept of a jazzposeurdates back to the 1940s.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Idol was also cast by many as a naive, tech-illiterateposeur.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was said to be a vain young man who could not cast aside his affections, he appeared a "poseur".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other critics were even less flattering, with terms such as poseurs and pomp-rockers put forth in various music guides.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He could play to the audience, but he was never a phonyposeur.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He's not aposeurpretending to be a gangsta; he's the real thing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He praises the gigs where there were no punk-identikit poseurs in the audience.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then, to guard against being labeled poseurs, the prep schoolers started to steal the gear that their parents could readily afford.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lee should emerge as flawed but real in a world of gorgeous poseurs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pejorative termposeuris applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy.
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- inconsistent
- inconsistently
- inconsolable
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- inconspicuously
- inconstancy
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- in constant touch
- incontestable
- incontestably
- incontinence
- incontinent
- incontrovertible
- incontrovertible evidence
- incontrovertible fact
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- inconvenience
- inconvenienced
- inconveniencing
- inconvenient
- inconveniently
- inconvertible
- inconvertible currency
- inconvertible-currency