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Requests for nouns, adjectives, or phrases that answer questions of the form “What do you call a person who . . . ?” Although these are not necessarily negative, they are often used pejoratively as “words that wound” against persons or acts one disapproves of, as in “racial epithets”.
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What is a word or phrase for someone who professes to know something but actually doesn't?
A dilettante is a person who's interested in a subject, but doesn't have any real in-depth knowledge about it.
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Describe a person who brags about difficulties
Are you looking for the word self-deprecating? This is were people make a negative comment about an achievement in order to not look like they're bragging.
Self-deprecation is the act of reprimanding …
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