sciolistical

Definitions

Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; showing only superficial knowledge.

Examples

“Persisting still in the same career of imbecility and assertion, Mr. Stone proceeds to enunciate the following sciolistical riddle.”

“[T]hey, who might have⟳ been admired and venerated as high priests of their order⟳, are revealed, by their own⟳ venality, to be no better than sciolistical professors, whose juggling arts, losing tricks, and gambling speculations, excite no less the derision, than the contempt of the multitude.”

“[T]he State, instead of gaining a large body of useful intelligent men – beings of capacity and amiability, impressed with a sense⟳ of their duties, who might be potent auxiliaries in the development of the resources of civilization – is corroded with a class of sciolistical asses, whose brains are as worthless as their hearts are false; […]”

CEFR level