— pseudointellectually , adv.
/sooh'doh in'tl ek"chooh euhl/ , n.
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.
adj.
3. of, pertaining to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.
[ 1935-40; PSEUDO- + INTELLECTUAL ]