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Definition of pointy-headed in English: pointy-headedadjective North American derogatory, informal Expert; intellectual. 〈北美，非正式，主贬〉尖脑袋；专家；知识分子 some pointy-headed college professor 某个尖脑袋大学教授。 Example sentencesExamples - Much useful and interesting information was presented by the pointy-headed intellectuals at last weekend's annual conference of the Political Science Association of Ireland in Limerick.
- Get those pointy-headed Washington bureaucrats off our backs and off our fronts too!
- Sounds like those pointy-headed Washington types are trying to force their values on me.
- Cambridge has a long and valiant history in spawning pointy-headed rocket scientists, as well as a shorter but no-less valiant track record in trying to turn their ideas into viable products and businesses.
- After all, these views come from people in your town, not pointy-headed pundits far away in Washington.
- Anytime a Democrat tries to point out that life is more complicated than this, he is accused of being a pointy-headed intellectual, or unpatriotic or worse.
- Partly it was the fault of pointy-headed left-wing pundits, who used it to shout down people whose arguments they didn't like.
- But cheer up, Dan, maybe one a these days all you pointy-headed, liberal, media fellers will see the light.
- Does this mean the general public is smarter about the nation's financial health than a roomful of pointy-headed economists?
- This is literally an economic miracle, even if the pointy-headed people employed at considerable expense by the NESC will not face the fact.
- She was pretty and popular, a twirler, and much cooler by several cool points than yours truly the queen of the pointy-headed nerds.
- I mean, they called us the pointy-headed liberal establishment and attacked us in every conceivable way.
- Who among us dares love those pointy-headed bureaucrats in Washington?
- Like jocks, the policymakers laugh at the pointy-headed intellectuals who think they know how to draft good laws and negotiate with foreign governments.
- To look insightful you have to find some way to turn things around on those pointy-headed scientist types.
- I fear real life jurors would respond to such an argument by dismissing it as bookish, the stuff of pointy-headed intellectuals.
- I hope this has been an interesting story, and scholarly enough for the most pointy-headed reader.
- Even the most pointy-headed of us tend to work faster and make fewer mistakes in our firewall policies if we can construct rules with the aid of visual cues and reminders.
- Score one for real people against the pointy-headed atheistic intellectuals (who have apparently declared war on the rest of us).
- Children are being turned off chemistry and physics by the mad professors and pointy-headed boffins of popular mythology, according to a new study of attitudes to science.
Synonyms learned, erudite, academic, well read, widely read, intellectual, literary, lettered, well educated, knowledgeable, cultured, cultivated, highbrow
Derivativesnoun North American derogatory, informal An intellectual or expert. a dull political pointy-head Example sentencesExamples - The Hutchins boys could be dismissed by journalists as a pack of pointy heads, intellectuals detached from the ethos of working stiffs.
- I never said the pointy heads should run things.
- It's not all doom and gloom on Ireland's property market from the pointy heads at international accountants.
OriginBy association with egghead. Definition of pointy-headed in US English: pointy-headedadjectiveˈpɔɪn(t)ihɛdədˈpoin(t)ēhedəd North American derogatory, informal Intellectual; expert. some pointy-headed college professor 某个尖脑袋大学教授。 Example sentencesExamples - Even the most pointy-headed of us tend to work faster and make fewer mistakes in our firewall policies if we can construct rules with the aid of visual cues and reminders.
- Who among us dares love those pointy-headed bureaucrats in Washington?
- Sounds like those pointy-headed Washington types are trying to force their values on me.
- But cheer up, Dan, maybe one a these days all you pointy-headed, liberal, media fellers will see the light.
- Score one for real people against the pointy-headed atheistic intellectuals (who have apparently declared war on the rest of us).
- After all, these views come from people in your town, not pointy-headed pundits far away in Washington.
- I mean, they called us the pointy-headed liberal establishment and attacked us in every conceivable way.
- To look insightful you have to find some way to turn things around on those pointy-headed scientist types.
- Does this mean the general public is smarter about the nation's financial health than a roomful of pointy-headed economists?
- She was pretty and popular, a twirler, and much cooler by several cool points than yours truly the queen of the pointy-headed nerds.
- Children are being turned off chemistry and physics by the mad professors and pointy-headed boffins of popular mythology, according to a new study of attitudes to science.
- Partly it was the fault of pointy-headed left-wing pundits, who used it to shout down people whose arguments they didn't like.
- Anytime a Democrat tries to point out that life is more complicated than this, he is accused of being a pointy-headed intellectual, or unpatriotic or worse.
- Like jocks, the policymakers laugh at the pointy-headed intellectuals who think they know how to draft good laws and negotiate with foreign governments.
- I fear real life jurors would respond to such an argument by dismissing it as bookish, the stuff of pointy-headed intellectuals.
- This is literally an economic miracle, even if the pointy-headed people employed at considerable expense by the NESC will not face the fact.
- Cambridge has a long and valiant history in spawning pointy-headed rocket scientists, as well as a shorter but no-less valiant track record in trying to turn their ideas into viable products and businesses.
- Get those pointy-headed Washington bureaucrats off our backs and off our fronts too!
- I hope this has been an interesting story, and scholarly enough for the most pointy-headed reader.
- Much useful and interesting information was presented by the pointy-headed intellectuals at last weekend's annual conference of the Political Science Association of Ireland in Limerick.
Synonyms learned, erudite, academic, well read, widely read, intellectual, literary, lettered, well educated, knowledgeable, cultured, cultivated, highbrow
OriginBy association with egghead. |