sesquipedalian

IPA: seɪskwipidˈeɪɫiʌn

Examples of "sesquipedalian" in Sentences

That makes one more sesquipedalian on the internet.
Or, perhaps it is a sign that I am sesquipedalian at best and pendantic at worst.
"Clarence Thomas, please spell the word sesquipedalian and then use it in a form of a question."
Professor Edgworth of All Souls, according to Robert Graves, tended towards this kind of sesquipedalian speech.
I prefer to characterize myself as a sesquipedalian, but I fear that such a characterization is a sham crafted by a hubristic pendant.
Let his obituary read, "Douglas Martin, a newspaperman who once got the word" sesquipedalian "onto the front page of the New York Times ...."
From the time the moderator gives the word, let's say it's "sesquipedalian," until your progeny very slowly spells it correctly, doesn't it seem a lifetime?
The first hypothesis to be explored was proposed by no less influential a political observer than columnist George Will, the bow-tied, sesquipedalian voice of American conservatism.