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pseudointellectual
[ soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uhl ]
noun
- 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.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly:
a pseudointellectual book.
Other yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è²õ±ð³Üî dŽÇ·Ÿ±²Ôî t±ð±ô·±ô±ð³Šît³Ü·²¹±ô·±ô²â adverb
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pseudointellectual1
Example Sentences
She was explaining to Gyllenhaal how she based a character in her latest film, âDonât Worry Darling,â on Jordan Peterson, a professor turned proselytizer whom Wilde described as âthis pseudointellectual hero to the incel community.â
The new rhetorical style is a pseudointellectual approach, as Americans observed Wednesday, when the Supreme Court took up the matter of abortion anew.
Roth, Iâm guessing, would have recoiled at all this pseudointellectual militancy.
And yet: The pseudointellectual brain trust that has long powered the GOP is now lobbying against adequately funding the IRS.
He even worked up an entirely different approach to the character, giving him a backstory in Paris as a pretentious pseudointellectual.
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