What do you call someone who is mediocre at best on a variety of fields but likes to pose as a polished and cultured person?
I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well. This person has a “I’m better than you” or “I know better and say it best” attitude, likes to pass as sensible and intellectual but when you contrast how they try to come across with what they actually do, how indifferent they are to others, and the quality of the skills they like to boast about it doesn’t add up. It’s all superficial, there is no substance to them, and no apparent self awareness ever of any of these shortcomings.
It’s like a special brand of “full of it”. Is there a word for it?
A pretentious prick
Agreeing with arrogant as the best word for this
Superiority complex.
A shining wit?
This sounds like the type of person I would refer to as a know-it-all.
Elitism?
Grandiose delusional
I’d probably call them lost or insecure.
Most people with behaviors like that do it as a defense mechanism.
The word is arrogant:-
‘having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.’
I always called them “arrogant for no reason”
Isn’t the “for no reason” baked into the word arrogant already? If their behavior was justified it would just be called confident.
Intellectual snob.
Pseudo intellectual. Pseudo polymath. Pseudo erudite…
If you’ve got a black cat, they’ve got a blacker cat?
If you’ve been to Tenerife they’ve been to Elevenerife?
I call that “one-up-manship”
Cunt
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Pseud.
Pretentious
