poser
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8.0
- noun
- /ˈpoʊzər/
- Offensive
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farsante
- She always pretends to be someone she's not; everyone thinks she's just a poser.
- a fucking poser
- a bunch of posers
- just a poser
Just as full of, you know, egoistic jerks and posers as any other movement is right?
- Just as full of, you know, egoistic jerks and posers as any other movement is right?
- And all these motivational speakers are just posers.
- So you're a you're a, you're a, you're a self reliant poser.
- It would be their it would be their job to kind of weed out and find, you know, who's just who's a poser, who's just here, who's trolling, like whatever.
- And when people look at that, they might not like it, but they're not going to judge you for being a sell out or a fake or a poser.
- And they they, they end up looking at these sets of tapes and they say, oh, we want to hire these people, all the high power posers.
Examples
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You're just a poser trying, and failing, to fit into the scene!
Fiction book (1995) -
Yeah, bit of a poser, a bit of an awkward situation, just trying to be, you know, casual.
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I used to go to The Smell, but I always just felt like a poser.
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- Jeffrey's a poser, dude.
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All these people are posers of the worst kind.
Blog text (11) -
Sports fans hate posers who jump on the bandwagon.
Blog text (12) -
Well, lots of clubs around here are run by posers and wannabes.
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I'll spare you the story of how I was a poser in 6th and/or 7th grade.
Blog text (31) -
Those posers don't know what they're missing out here.
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Mr E.W. Lambert of Homeleigh, The Burrows, Oswestry, has presented us with a poser.
Synonyms
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4.4
A person who pretends to be something they are not to trick others
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6.2
A person who pretends to have feelings or beliefs to deceive others
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3.7
A person who pretends to be someone they are not
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5.1
A person who pretends to be someone else to trick people
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5.1
A person who pretends to be someone else to trick people and get money or other benefits
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8.6
A person who pretends to be someone they are not
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6.2
A person who pretends to be someone else to trick or entertain people
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5.2
A person who pretends to be someone else or lies to trick people
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9.9
A person who pretends to be cool to fit in with others
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7.4
A person who lies about their job or skills to trick people
A woman who pretends to be important or fashionable to impress others
A person who acts to impress others rather than show true feelings
A person who pretends to know a lot to impress others
A person who pretends to be someone else to trick people
A person or device that pretends to be something else to deceive people
How Genuine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Poser comes from the verb pose, which can mean 'to put on' an attitude or look. A helpful way to remember this is that a poser 'puts on' a style or personality to impress others, so they are pretending rather than being genuine.