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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As soon as I heard this long, desperate stream of pseudointellectual gibberish, I knew instantly that this thing was doomed.
