Meaning of ultracrepidarian | Babel Free

Definitions

Giving opinions on something beyond their knowledge or expertise.

derogatory, uncommon

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Examples

“[…]like⟳ a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set⟳ down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead; and very fairly infer that any one who is beneath yourself must be nothing. You have⟳ been well called an Ultra-Crepidarian critic.”

“[Inspector Queen] was the only person in New York who might be called, without intent to malign, an Ultracrepidarian critic. It was of the very nature of his job to find⟳ fault with small and insignificant details.”

“Suitably daunted by ultracrepidarian angst, I record⟳ here some tentative readings in rhetoric's expanded domain and venture a few preliminary observations on their relation to the electronic word.”

“In a sense⟳, the ‘scientistic’ polemicist who stumbles across unseen disciplinary boundaries in an ultracrepidarian stupor is not always entirely in the wrong; there are now in fact contested territories where the dissonances are quite real.”

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