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Significats de sesquipedalian en anglès

(Of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables.

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A very long word (a foot and a half long)

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Examples for "polysyllabic"
Examples for "polysyllabic"
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His father, who is a school-teacher, originally had an impenetrably polysyllabic Italian name.
The new yorker
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Lyric events can be shifted, if you missed splitting up a polysyllabic word somewhere.
Wired
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Revisiting the poem, I was newly astonished by the polysyllabic splendours of the Russian.
The Guardian
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I saw that you were groping for a polysyllabic finish.
The Mayor of Warwick
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Mr. Moseley had arrived with arguments and reasons and platitudes, all expressed in a polysyllabic monotone.
Sandy

Sesquipedalian.

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Ús de sesquipedalian en anglès
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Fact was, he had monologued it in his most sesquipedalian phraseology.
Memories and Anecdotes
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Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.
Earth Unaware
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Time is wanted,-orthe hubbub, and flurry, and excitement created by ubiquitous sesquipedalian advertisement.
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
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Cæsar's bridge rested on sesquipedalian beams of solid timber.
The Awakening of China
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The story of any incident, to be realistic, will admit neither of sesquipedalian grandeur nor of grotesque images.
Thackeray
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His passion for polysyllables was very amusing, and he loved to astonish his hearers by his "sesquipedalian" phraseology.
Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography
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Whatever about the poverty of secularist thinking, the letters clearly indicate the prevalence in Ireland of a propensity for sesquipedalian talking.
The Irish Times
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Peter is an excellent servant; but the fashion of his speech, even when conveying the most trivial information, is slightly sesquipedalian.
The Beetle: A Mystery
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Now nobody sees it, and those who do have had their anticipations lengthened leagues by every syllable of its sesquipedalian title.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 / A Mag...
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He said that when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion.
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
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Their poverty of thought can not be long disguised in flamboyant rhetoric and sesquipedalian words, and hence they fail to carry conviction to serious-minded men.
Talks on Talking
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A German lawyer has suggested that his Irish professional peer group is riddled with sesquipedalians.
The Irish Times
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Sesquipedalian a través del temps