wannabe
IPA: wˈɑnʌbi
noun
- (informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
- (informal, derogatory) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
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Examples of "wannabe" in Sentences
- Semes you're the wannabe censor.
- In fact he is a wannabe imposter.
- Either a wannabe or the real deal.
- Vanity page for this lowbrow wannabe.
- A white guy and not a gangster wannabe.
- Seems to be a glorified tabloid wannabe.
- But I'm a musician and an editor wannabe.
- The comic misadventures of a gangster wannabe.
- A hip hop dancer, a wannabe singer and a wannabe rapper.
- And if you ever saw me cast a fly rod you'd know what a wannabe is ...
- All I want is to be left alone from some kind of freaky boyish wannabes.
- Another pudgy idiot tough-guy wannabe from the Right Wing Keyboard Brigade.
- This Lost-wannabe is starting to lose its way (and its viewers) as itmeanders through tepid subplots
- Even the hardest Barack followers are starting to see that this wannabe is all STYLE and no SUBSTANCE!!!!!
- That friends...is what you call a wannabe pundit leaving themselves open to claim having gotten it right.
- The reason for using the term wannabe "alot" is because these mom & pop places "want to be" pixar and dreamworks.
- First Deputy Superintendent Al Wysinger, the department's No. 2 official, who attended the meeting, blamed the recent violence on a dispute between what he described as wannabe gangs - Young Money and 46 Terror Town.
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