poseur

Plural: poseurs

Noun

• A person who acts affectedly to impress others.
• a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
• One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

Examples

• He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
• He was a Scrabble poseur, always claiming to know obscure words he never actually played.
• She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.

Synonyms

poser, attitudinizer

Related Words

pretentious, wannabe