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inkhorn
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- The writer apparently thought using a bunch of inkhorn terms would impress the reader and distract from the severely lacking plot.
didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual
high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty
affected, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-minded, la-di-da (also la-de-da), ostentatious, pompous
erudite, learned, scholarly, scholastic
academic (also academical), bookish, professorial
brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smart
blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdy
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