EDITORIAL:  This word describes probably most people who describe themselves as experts on freedom, sovereignty, or law.  This word is also useful in describing most government witnesses or expert witnesses.

In addition, some of our members have described those who fit in the category and who are engaging in passionate advocacy as executing “histrionic pearl clutching”.  Look it up, friends!

• Histrionic
• Pearl-Clutching

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SOURCE: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beautiful-useless-obscure-words-volume-2/roorback

Ultracrepidarian

Definition:

“giving opinions on matters beyond one’s knowledge”
(Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.)

Degree of Usefulness:
Somebody speaking confidently about something they don’t know much about? On the internet? Never.

Some Trivia:
This curious word is thought to have come from the Latin ultra crepidam (“beyond the sole”), a shortened and translated version of something said by the Greek painter Apelles in response to a shoemaker who had the nerve to criticize his painting.

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SOURCE: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ultracrepidarian

ultracrepidarian

[ uhl-truh-krep-i-dair-ee-uhn ]SHOW IPA

🎓 College Level

adjective 1. noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise:
The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
noun

an ultracrepidarian person.