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noun
1.
a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
2.
a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.
adjective
3.
of, pertaining to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.
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Pseudointellectual
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So is dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. Does it mean:
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S. |
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