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English
Etymology
Coined by columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell writing in The American Spectator from intellectual + -oid.
Noun
intellectualoid (plural intellectualoids)
- (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.
Usage notes
- Originating in a conservative publication, intellectualoid is used mostly or exclusively by conservatives discussing liberals.