ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Intellectualoid

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Intellectualoid is a noun meaning (US, derogatory) One with intellectual pretensions.

Meaning

(US, derogatory) One with intellectual pretensions.

Example Sentences

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.
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."

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Related dictionary entries include anti-intellectualist, anti-intellectual, antiintellectualist, antiintellectualism, anti-intellectualism, nerd.

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