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pseudointellectual
a. Pretentiously or insincerely intellectual. Nonsense. n. 1 A person who affects proficiency in scholarly and artistic pursuits whilst lacking any in-depth knowledge or critical understanding of such topics. 2 A person who pretends to be of greater intelligence than he or she in fact is.
Usage examples of "pseudointellectual".
Intuition led him to suspect that whatever it was was somehow connected to that lunkhead who used to stand stock-still down the street there, fooling gullible pseudointellectuals such as Ellen Cherry Charles into believing he was turning around.