单词 | pseudery |
释义 | pseuderyn. colloquial. derogatory. Intellectual or social pretension or affectation; pseudo-intellectual speech, writing, debate, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] affectation1548 affection1570 phantastry1656 stilt1735 fal-lal1775 coxcombality1785 meemaw1790 posture-making1797 attitudinarianism1803 attitudinizing1812 piminy1819 stiltishness1824 niminy-piminyism1840 gyvera1866 notion1866 attitudinization1871 effectism1871 jam1882 chichi1908 poncing1969 pseudery1972 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > affected manner pseudery1972 pseudishness1978 1972 Guardian 24 Feb. 10/3 There's nothing like an overt piece of pseudery to make one feel all lilywhite. 1975 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 6/2 In another paper, a psychiatrist solemnly reported his finding that ‘in general fat people do not go to university’... These farragoes of improbable pseudery..tend to be prefaced by an enormously portentous address. 1976 Broadcast 12 Jan. 9/3 Capital's Sunday pseudery gets the boot. 1996 H. Marks Mr Nice (1998) i. 19 Prison fare had cured me of that bit of pompous pseudery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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