How about bamboozling ?
Although, to be sure, this word only really works when the pretending-to-be-smarter-than-thou is successful in fooling someone into thinking so. Otherwise, it’s only attempted bamboozling.
Pseudo-intellectual, pretentious, poser.
jtur88:
Yes it does. My neighbor got into the market and played dumb , got some bad investments. I don’t like him, so when he asked me what to do to fix his situation, I had some good ideas, but I played dumb. Completely different.
Is there a way to ban posters from particular forums, such as GQ? That’d be great.
Projecting the appearance of comprehension and confidence when you are utterly baffled?
I don’t know what word other than posted above is best, but…*man…*they ought to teach a course in it.:dubious:
Enola_Straight:
Projecting the appearance of comprehension and confidence when you are utterly baffled?
I don’t know what word other than posted above is best, but…*man…*they ought to teach a course in it.:dubious:
I would have thought it was a required class for PhD’s
astro:
Perpetratin’
Along those lines, frontin’
Playing Smart is what Don Adams did.
Isilder
December 25, 2014, 9:10am
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Posturing ? well there is pastor posturing, which are those anecdotes or stories that are not bible stories…
Maybe propaganderizing… maybe spin-doctoring. Although this might be done by very bright people.
bob_2
December 25, 2014, 11:47am
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John_Mace:
That phrase (emphasis added) would not be used by a native speaker of English. “Played dumb” is the type of phrase that could mean different things, but would generally cause confusion if you tried to use it instead of “played stupidly” because of it’s strong connotation with “pretended to not know”.
Is English your native language? If not, then you might be aware of that.
“Played” in this instance is a synonym for “pretended” or “acted”
bob_2
December 25, 2014, 11:48am
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Enola_Straight:
Projecting the appearance of comprehension and confidence when you are utterly baffled?
I don’t know what word other than posted above is best, but…*man…*they ought to teach a course in it.:dubious:
Isn’t it called Politics?
dasmoocher:
I’m thinking a cross between bullshitting and bluffing is what I’m after.
The context was a supervisor in a lab that had a mis-calibrated piece of equipment, but they didn’t know/appreciate it. Results “looked great”.
No, they don’t. And that’s when I knew they were [insert word I’m looking for].
It might have been a cultural thing where they felt they must be the absolute expert on all things in the lab, because there were other similar occurrences with other procedures/protocols/analyses we did.
The context was a supervisor in a lab that had a mis-calibrated piece of equipment, but they didn’t know ( Ignorant of ) /appreciate it. (No insight or [COLOR=“Lime”] intuitiveness of the correct results [/COLOR] ) Results “looked great”.
IMO, you have to pick one description to get one word;
For people who think they’re smarter or more competent than they really are, see Dunning–Kruger effect .
That’s different from people who are perfectly well aware that they don’t know what they’re doing but act as though they do.
I was using appreciate in this sense:
2. understand (a situation) fully; recognize the full implications of.
“they failed to appreciate the pressure he was under”
informal be wise to
I don’t think that’s way different.
Senegoid:
Bluffleshitting.
I LOL’d at this new word. I shall have to use it in a sentence, plenty of occasions around the office.
