intellectualoid

Definitions

One with intellectual pretensions

US, derogatory

Examples

“In the aftermath of this attack, it was reported that Bedell was a pot-smoking intellectualoid from California who left word on the Internet that according to his findings, a "coup regime" took over Washington at the time of President John F. Kennedy's assassination and has governed the country "up to the present⟳ day."”

“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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