Pseudo

Noun

 * 1) An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
 * 2) A poseur; false, fake.

Related terms

 * pseud - variant

Adjective

 * 1) being other than what is apparent, a sham
 * 2) insincere
 * 3) spurious

Thesaurus
affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, garbled, hokey, illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarized, pretended, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wrong

Etymology
From pseudo-:.

Translations

 * Turkish: sahte, kalp yalanci

Anagrams

 * does up, souped

Noun

 * 1)  A nickname, handle or pseudonym.