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Ultracrepidarian

Ultracrepidarian

Definition: one who is presumptuous and offers advice or opinions beyond one’s sphere of knowledge.

The meaning of this word comes from a story in antiquity, in which the famed Greek painter Apelles one day heard a cobbler criticizing the way he had rendered a foot in a painting. 

Hence, an ultracrepidarian is one who, as a shoemaker might, goes “beyond the sole,” and offers advice on matters they perhaps should leave alone.

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