intellectualoid

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English

Etymology

Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual +‎ -oid.

Noun

intellectualoid (plural intellectualoids)

  1. (US, derogatory) One with intellectual pretensions
    • 2010 March 12, R. Emmett Tyrrell, “The angry left joins talk radio”, in The Washington Examiner:
      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."
    • 2015 June 17, L. E. Ikenga, “Obama and the Black Intellectualoids”, in American Thinker:
      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.
    • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 37:
      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.

Usage notes

  • Originating in a conservative publication, intellectualoid is used mostly or exclusively by conservatives discussing liberals.