Intellectualoid
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One with intellectual pretensions US, derogatory
"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.""
Example
More 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.""
Etymology
Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual + -oid.
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