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Toofer, played by Keith Powell, is a parody of the kind of highly educated, quasi-intellectual black person who might view broad humor like Tracy’s—and Morgan’s—as embarrassing to the race.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

I was already nostalgic for my quasi-intellectual youthful contrivances.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2013

He therefore cultivates flippancy as a fine art, and becomes noted for a certain cheap cynicism, which he sprinkles like a quasi-intellectual pepper over the strong meat of risky conversation.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 by Various