His father, who is a school-teacher, originally had an impenetrably polysyllabic Italian name.

Lyric events can be shifted, if you missed splitting up a polysyllabic word somewhere.

Revisiting the poem, I was newly astonished by the polysyllabic splendours of the Russian.

I saw that you were groping for a polysyllabic finish.

Mr. Moseley had arrived with arguments and reasons and platitudes, all expressed in a polysyllabic monotone.

They are Episcopalians or Presbyterians or some other correspondingly polysyllabic thing, as the case may be.

But our English way is to put the emphasis on the first part of a polysyllabic word.

The writer gives examples of the meaningless polysyllabic wards that are used so often today in all fields.

Mr. Lewis took off and bombed the third term, making a mumpy and polysyllabic landing in Herbert Hoover's lap.

Then there was a torrent of polysyllabic blasphemy from four mouths; exactly who said what would never be clearly recalled.

Frank Dunlop is back at the tribunal for the first time in a year, as deft and polysyllabic as ever.

Before RISC, he says, those architectures tended to be highly complex and full of the digital equivalent of polysyllabic words.

An analogous case to this distributed stress but with monosyllables instead of polysyllabic words is the familiar line in Lycidas-

That still left her with a dauntingly long list of characters with polysyllabic names and a tendency to get into trouble.

Nanny nodded appreciatively at the polysyllabic response, and gave Tiffany a wink that made her blush to the soles of her boots.

She looked at the surly male and spoke to him in Lubbock, the polysyllabic guttural language of most of the eastern vodyanoi.