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intellectualoid

noun

Etymology

Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual + -oid.

  1. derived from intellectuel
  2. suffixed as intellectualoid — “intellectual + oid”

Definitions

  1. One with intellectual pretensions

    • Barack Obama owes his position to his membership in a class that is destroying America: the intellectualoids -- shallow people able to fool others into believing they possess superior intellects.
    • I do not think the press is "an enemy of the people," but, as Dwight Eisenhower said in 1964, its ranks are filled with "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators" whose writings mark them as little more than intellectualoids.

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