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poseur

/poh-zur; French paw-zœr/US // poʊˈzɜr; French pɔˈzœr //UK // (pəʊˈzɜː) //

伪君子,冒失鬼,伪装者,装腔作势的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural po·seurs [poh-zurz; French paw-zœr]. /poʊˈzɜrz; French pɔˈzœr/.

    • : a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.

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Examples

  • The boxer with the moniker “Money” grasped that going a few rounds with this pugilistic poseur would deliver a Brinks truck of cash to his bank account.

  • We find Wilkes as a poseur on literature in one of these entertaining letters to “dearest Polly.”

  • It is an awful thing when a poseur ceases to pose, when an egoist becomes a human being.

  • Poet and poseur he was, the strangest combination ever seen in man.

  • The peculiar charm of these Letters is that they are so evidently private; there is nothing of the poseur about them.

  • And Whistler, he declared, was a "poseur" and the picture "a colossal piece of pyramidal impudence."