adjective
- characterized by superficial knowledge; pretending to have more knowledge than one actually possesses
Usage: formal; often pejorative
Examples
- His sciolistic comments about quantum physics revealed his lack of real understanding.
- The professor dismissed the student’s sciolistic interpretation of the text.
- Her sciolistic approach to art criticism annoyed the experts.
- The book review was criticized as sciolistic and poorly researched.
- He made sciolistic remarks about philosophy without having studied it seriously.
- The debate was marred by sciolistic arguments from both sides.