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Dunning-Kruger’s Kill-Joy

A guy who, due to ego or low intelligence, refuses to acknowledge that he didn’t get understand the joke, so instead resorts to insisting that there was never a joke in the first place. He will often criticize the intelligence of the person telling the joke on the basis that they were serious.
“Make sure not to use satire around that guy! He’s Dunning-Kruger’s Kill-Joy, he’ll trap you in an argument you never actually made!”
by CountSnoww November 18, 2021
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dirty Kruger

Dirty kruger

When fucking in doggy style, and you pull out to piss on his/her back and continues to fuck as id noting happened
Duncan gave Malcolm a dirty kruger
by Nicolas nel April 5, 2023
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Stunning Kruger

The delightful and often ironic sensation experienced when witnessing an individual's confidence in their own (incorrect) knowledge or abilities reach such stratospheric heights, it momentarily leaves you stunned. It's the Dunning-Kruger effect, but cranked up to 11, where the sheer audacity of their ignorance becomes a spectacle in itself. Often accompanied by an internal monologue of "Are they serious right now?" and a stunned, silent admiration for their unwavering self-belief.
"Did you hear Fritz explain German politics at the party? He had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, but the way he delivered it with such conviction... it was pure stunning Kruger."
by Lippes July 8, 2025
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Dunning Kruger Malthusianism

Population control thanks to a collective overconfidence in personal intelligence of a populace.
Darwinism in action? No I think Anti Vaxxers are an example Dunning Kruger Malthusianism. They see tried and tested disease prevention as deliberate infection.
by svenjamie March 22, 2020
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Moron-Kruger Effect.

*not to be confused of Dunning–Kruger effect*

The Moron-Kruger Effect is a psychological phenomenon/cognitive blackhole, in which, the moron in question lacks sufficient information about a given topic and still chooses to argue as if they know it all.

Main difference between it and the Dunning–Kruger effect is that the moron actively chooses not to educate themselves and uses their previously stated arguments as I they were universally accepted.

4 notable stages of the Moron-Kruger Effect are:

• Indulging in a conversation about a topic that the moron knows/heard little or insufficient information about and shares their thoughts on it.

• When met with scrutiny, the moron will justify their takes as if they were misunderstood.

• The moron is easily enraged at the responses that they had received. Furthering his spiral into confusing misinformation with facts.

• Finally, the moron will now start to double down, knowing that they are in the wrong, yet they choose to not rectify previously made mistakes and will keep spreading misinformation.
"That guy thinks that all game developers are lazy because of the success of so-and-so and now they keep arguing about what they don't know about when proven wrong? That's the Moron-Kruger Effect!"

"My neighbor thinks 5G is cancerous because they heard it uses more power and now they think COVID-19 was a conspiracy!? Moron-Kruger Effect."
by The Zaidist Zaidasexual Zaid. September 25, 2023
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Kruger

In reference to the Dunning Kruger effect.

A person who thinks they know more than they actually do.
Adjective: That Kruger thinks he knows everything
by A Kruger May 18, 2022
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