Pseudo-intellectual
[soo-doh-in-tl-ek-choo-uh l] /ˌsu doʊˌɪn tlˈɛk tʃu əl/
noun
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.
adjective
3.
of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly:
a pseudointellectual book.
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