sesquipedalian
IPA: seɪskwipidˈeɪɫiʌn
noun
- A long word.
- A person who uses long words.
adjective
- (of a word or words) Long; polysyllabic.
- Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words.
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Examples of "sesquipedalian" in Sentences
- That makes one more sesquipedalian on the internet.
- By the way, sesquipedalian means to use a larger vocabulary.
- He is a sesquipedalian, but has the intellectual depth of a chipmunk.
- This is an encyclopedia, not an exercise for obscurantist sesquipedalianism.
- 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.
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