pseudointellectual

pseudointellectual
pseudointellectually, adv.
/sooh'doh in'tl ek"chooh euhl/, n.
1. a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
2. a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.
adj.
3. of, pertaining to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.
[1935-40; PSEUDO- + INTELLECTUAL]

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