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Polonius

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Noun
  1. 1
    A busybody who makes poor judgments.

    "From the winged words of corporation executives, from the pulpits of economic Poloniuses, the same evil is identified and decried: the collapse of productivity. But are the sermons total myths?"

Etymology

After the character of Polonius in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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