pseudointellectual
[soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uh l]
- a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
- a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.
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- of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.
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Origin of pseudointellectual
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Examples from the Web for pseudo-intellectual
Contemporary Examples
So the real meat of Stalker, ostensibly, is the pseudo-intellectual conversation about misogyny.
Historical Examples
For example, there can be no doubt that one may see from time to time the pseudo-intellectual woman.
A Short History of Women's RightsEugene A. Hecker
I said your whole damned Index is nothing but a bunch of pseudo-intellectual garbage.
The Great Gray PlagueRaymond F. Jones