poseur
Noun
Meaning
a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
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His associates fell into two camps: one that saw him as an aloof and impressive genius and aesthete, the other that saw him as a pretentious and insecure poseur.
In the punk subculture, the epithet poseur (or "poser") is used to describe "a person who habitually pretends to be something he or she is not."
; porte cochère : an architectural term referring to a kind of porch or porticolike structure. ; poseur : lit. "poser": a person who pretends to be something he is not; an affected or insincere person; a wannabe.
He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.
Do you really wanna be the poseur who sez ‘Paree”.
I was going to get a boy and call him Orwell (poseur alert) but there were only girls left by the time we got there.