lumpenintelligentsian.
/ˌlʌmpənˌɪntɛlᵻˈdʒɛnsɪə/, /ˌlʌmpənɪnˌtɛlᵻˈdʒɛnsɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌləmpənᵻnˌtɛləˈdʒɛn(t)siə/ British (depreciative).
A section of the intelligentsia regarded as making no useful contribution to society, or as lacking taste, culture, etc. Also more generally: the intelligentsia collectively, regarded as worthless or powerless.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual person > false
pseudo-intellectual1922
lumpenintelligentsia1936
1936 T. A. Jackson Dialectics vii. 540 All the lumpen intelligentsia who spend their days either in posing as more Marxist than Marx, more Leninist than Lenin, and more proletarian than the proletariat; or, alternatively, in nattering at all three in the name of whatever-it-is which is the ‘Very Latest’!
1957 J. B. Priestley Thoughts in Wilderness 175 [The play] held my attention (even if I did not roar my approval as often as the lumpenintelligentsia that night in the audience seemed to do).
1971 Law Q. Rev. 87 263 According to the accepted wisdom of the modern lumpenintelligentsia such an act of censorship should have had a crippling effect on literary standards; but it is difficult to believe that anything of value was lost.
2006 Australian (Nexis) 15 Mar. 13 Little of value is produced by the adherents or fellow travellers of this school [sc. postmodernism], who are more concerned with political fashion among the lumpen intelligentsia than any analysis.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1936- to the loudest
- to the manner born
- to the manor born
- to the marrow
- to the masthead
- to the matter
- to the max
- to the memory of
- to the mends
- to the mite
- to the moment
- to the nail
- to the nay-ward
- to the nayward
- to the nearest
- to the neck
- to the nines
- to the nines rarely nine
- to the nonce
- to the north-eastward
- to the north-eastward of
- to the north-westward
- to the north-westward of
- to the northeastward
- to the northeastward of