The Arrogant Know-It-All

• She's smart-a regular encyclopedia. On thing she doesn't know is that reference books are never taken out.
• They know all the answers, but nobody asks them the questions.
• If they can't boast about knowing something, they boast about not knowing it.

The Arrogant Know-It-All is pretentious, confrontational, insecure, socially inept, exhausting, manipulative, pedantic, limited, non communicative, judgmental, selfish, self-righteous, pushy, rejecting, annoying, rigid, unaware, stubborn, condescending, sarcastic, controlling, offensive, talkative, and critical.

Arrogant Know-It-Alls don't know anything at all when it comes to dealing with people. Though they may seem to know everything and have all the self-confidence in the world, they are really very insecure people. Otherwise they wouldn't have to let everyone know how smart they are and how much information they have stored in their brain.

Arrogant Know-It-Alls usually talk at you, not with you. In fact, they often act as though by talking to you they are doing you a favor. They enjoy using big words and are very quick to put down your ideas. The condecending tone makes you feel like a dummy, while they in turn feel smarter.

Another tactic of Arrogant Know-It-Alls is to overwhelm you with data and information. You don't have a chance to even compete with them, much less talk about anything intelligently. Since they know it all, they can never be open minded enough to learn more, especially if you are the one talking to them.