Definition of Would-Be

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Definition of Would-Be
	Would-be Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet. Related Definitions: As, Be, Desiring, Or, Poet, Pretending, Professing, To, Vainly, Would-Be

Would-Be Quotations

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
Laura Bush

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
James Cash Penney

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
Sidney Sheldon

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
Chris Chocola

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.
Curt Weldon

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
George Voinovich

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