sesquipedalian

In modern times the terms appear to be practically confined to sesquipedalian humour.

But recently a strange whimsy has started to creep in among the sesquipedalian prose of scientific journals.

I have, on occasion, accused a loquacious colleague of "sesquipedalian periphrasis".

The text does at time become somewhat sesquipedalian but I can empathize with the syllogism behind it."

The sesquipedalian words flowed in an unintelligible sound-pattern.

Sesquipedalian Stuffiness In 1851, the relatively few lettered Americans used writing to do more than communicate.

With their class-conscious attention to spelling and sesquipedalian words, they pronounced their membership in the intelligentsia.

After the text analysis, and if requested, Maxi-Read stores the sesquipedalian words for display in the hope that you will try to find alternatives.

Sesquipedalian Origins (2001)

Helplessly, he would manipulate every sesquipedalian word he encountered until he had wrung all possible combinations out of it.

This is conveyed in sometime sesquipedalian prose that demonstrates his precocity (he got 1100 on the SAT's at age 11).

I HAVE occasional difficulty with Mr. Buckley's sesquipedalian style of writing.

Sesquipedalian Origins Static Caravan Recordings (2002)

Professor Edgworth of All Souls, according to Robert Graves, tended towards this kind of sesquipedalian speech.

In time Mr. Moynihan's radiance may dim; in time he may be persuaded to bring more discipline to his sesquipedalian oratory.

Because my father was a professor, I early picked up a sesquipedalian way of speaking (which has been defined as a tendency to use words like "sesquipedalian").

Captain Haddock, from the Tintin comic books, swears unlike a real sailor with sesquipedalian ejaculations like "billions of blistering blue barnacles" and "thundering typhoons".

"The word of more than two syllables is a problem for us," said Fiennes, whose full name is the polysyllabic, or even sesquipedalian ("six-footed"), Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

Ashurst's political career was noted for a self-contradictory voting record, the use of a sesquipedalian vocabulary, and for a love of public speaking that earned him a reputation as one of the Senate's greatest orators.

Commissioner Giamatti, who, for the most part, handled the entire six-month Rose situation with brilliance, with resolve, and, customarily, with sesquipedalian eloquence, confined his statement of banishment to a model of simple, direct language.

Beginning in 1922, it was called Fortbildungsschule mit Fachklassen ("Further Education School with Subject Classes"), and as of 1930, it bore the sesquipedalian name Berufsfortbildungsschule ("Vocational Further Education School").

The point of the sesquipedalian title was to poke fun at those who conceal their lack of real expertise by using long and complicated words, whilst making the serious point that more people are fooled by these so-called experts than really should be.

Although Mr. Cosell was known for his knack for making the most straightforward observation sound as if it were being translated from the Latin, he was rarely as sesquipedalian as newspaper and magazine writers inevitably became when they described him.

The conservative man of letters known for his sesquipedalian style - that is, his love of long fancy words - will mark his 70th birthday, which actually is on Nov. 24, on Wednesday at a dinner party at the Four Seasons restaurant.

Herb, a former Justice Department prosecutor with the organized-crime task force, founded the firm Beigel & Sandler (which now bears the sesquipedalian moniker of Beigel Schy Lasky Rifkind & Hennessey).