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- noun Someone who
pretends to be moreintelligent than they are. - adjective Pretentiously or insincerely intellectual. Nonsense.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I found the article on the comics resurgence, and particularly, the 26 year old pseudointellectual whom RIP "brought back into comics" pretty amusing, since I can't for one second imagine that he understood it beyond some skindeep conception of its plot.
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A bloke starting a fracas in front of a copper gets banged up for GBH without pseudointellectual human rights arguements about self-incrimination, and doing 90 past a camera is no different.
The Implications Of Courting Popularity « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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That's a pretty heady pseudointellectual word for lowly bike racers.
BSNYC "Summer Reese's" Announcement! (and Friday Fun Quiz!) BikeSnobNYC 2010
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TripleSH was a third-rate pseudointellectual from New Jersey who seemed like a nice guy.
Assholes Finish First Tucker Max 2010
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I smiled and told myself that an ignoramus was preferable to a pseudointellectual.
Beard 2010
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Popper had it right when he noted that the only thing that fools the pseudointellectual into believing the veracity of his nonscholarship is the self-reinforcing “confirmations” they imagine they see.
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The stuff Wolfe writes, and your reaction to it is pseudointellectual.
WolfeWiki 2008
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It draws a pseudointellectual parallel between some implications of the Uncertainty Principle viz., the effect on a phenomenon of an attempt to measure the phenomenon to the impact of legal decisions on shaping society.
Obama fatigue 2010
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A lot of people buy in to Brooks 'pseudointellectual shtick for making grand pronouncements that presume to define reality.
David Brooks' Lies on Healthcare Reform: An Incomplete List 2009
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When President Clinton began the push for health care reform in the 1990s, it was none other than far-right pseudointellectual Bill Kristol who released a memo documenting how the right would go about opposing health care reform, and the reasons why they should.
Dan Sweeney: Self-Preservation: The Real Reason the GOP Opposes Health Care Reform 2009
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