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As a sesquipedalian stylist, he can throw a word like 'eponymous" into a sentence without missing a beat. ... Plus he has a weakness for what we can mischievously call sesquipedalian excess: Look out for such terms as "epiphenomenal," "diegetic" and "proprioceptive."
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Sesquipedalian - Definition of Sesquipedalian at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Sesquipedalian. Word of the Day and Crossword Puzzles. ... a sesquipedalian word.
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/sesquipedalian
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Singular; sesquipedalian ... sesquipedalian (comparative more sesquipedalian, superlative most sesquipedalian) ... Our dinner guest was so sesquipedalian that no one could understand what he said.
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian
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Sesquipedalian: A long word. ... With the exception of reading B.uce Selya's sesquipedalian opinions or the belittling diatribes of now-imprisoned former federal judge Samuel B. Kent, I can think of little else that fills me with such an urge to vomit.
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www.wordnik.com/words/sesquipedalian
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The story behind the Weird Word 'sesquipedalian'. ... Relating to a long word; characterised by using long words. ... We owe this word to the Roman writer Horace, who wrote in his Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry): “Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba” (“He throws aside his paint pots and his words that are a foot and...
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• adjective formal 1 (of a word) having many syllables; long. 2 characterized by long words; long-winded. ... Perform another search of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary ... About this dictionary; The Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English contains 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions. Find out more...
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Sesquipedalian words or foot and a half long words actually exist in many documents, especially in bureaucratic utterances ... Sesquipedalian Words; Part One, 1-16...
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www.wordsources.info/words-mod-sesquipedalian-1-16.html
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Sesquipedalian n. One who is inordinately infatuated with polysyllabic obfuscation, preferring never to employ a less complicated syntactic arrangement of descriptive words when there exists a single expressive unit that amalgamates the multiplicity of morphemes1 comprising the simpler phrase.
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Definition of sesquipedalian from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... 1 : having many syllables : long < sesquipedalian terms>; 2 : given to or characterized by the use of long words <a sesquipedalian television commentator>
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www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sesquipedalian
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[sĕśkwĭ-pĭ-dāĺyən]
