pseudo-intellectual

He is the middle school principal and a pseudo-intellectual.

A pseudo-intellectual who hated and resented the real thing.

I knew you were human and not the cynical pseudo-intellectual you pretended to be.

The sixties pseudo-intellectual, acid-dropping, college radical was now paying the price.

These are Republicans, who should know better, taking on this pseudo-intellectual, European, learned nonsense and it made me mad.

Zösky is a cunning, level-headed pseudo-intellectual who always has a plan.

In Balthus's view, most of modern art was "assembled by pseudo-intellectuals who neglected nature, and became blind to it."

The expression was made popular in 'Private Eye' and is still in use as an insult against pseudo-intellectuals.

Carter (Robert Lindsay), a pseudo-intellectual whose aspirations were invariably frustrated.

'Typical pseudo-intellectuals,' Jamie said in a low voice.

He's not a firebrand or a pseudo-intellectual.

Mr. Keiser added that, in a profession "full of pseudo-intellectuals, he was the genuine article."

Critics lampoon him as a pseudo-intellectual who says whatever comes into his head -- whether genuinely important or ludicrous.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

Marius - is a semi-ineffectual pseudo-intellectual who runs about citing manners for Livia.

Kirkus Reviews judged the latter book, published in 1963, to be "for sensation seekers and pseudo-intellectuals".

You don't have to be an intellectual, but you have to be at least a pseudo-intellectual."

He called them pseudo-intellectuals, no-brainers and layabouts.

Since Polonius is a parody of a pompous pseudo-intellectual, the name might have been interpreted as a deliberate insult.

For the Asian "pseudo-intellectual," it promised elite status and the phony complexities of "doctrinaire double talk."

He is geeky, gauche and pseudo-intellectual.

Allen noted that "Michael had to do the pseudo-intellectual, the genuine intellectual, the pedant, and he came in and nailed it from the start".

Sam Jordison: Despite it being a favourite of pseudo-intellectuals and the internet age, nobody seems clear on what Kafkaesque means.

“It makes us all into pseudo-intellectuals.”

"The Mexican people are more intelligent than many intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals believe," Mr. Alazraki shot back.