Meanings of sesquipedalian in English

Fact was, he had monologued it in his most sesquipedalian phraseology.

Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.

Time is wanted,-orthe hubbub, and flurry, and excitement created by ubiquitous sesquipedalian advertisement.

Cæsar's bridge rested on sesquipedalian beams of solid timber.

The story of any incident, to be realistic, will admit neither of sesquipedalian grandeur nor of grotesque images.

His passion for polysyllables was very amusing, and he loved to astonish his hearers by his "sesquipedalian" phraseology.

Whatever about the poverty of secularist thinking, the letters clearly indicate the prevalence in Ireland of a propensity for sesquipedalian talking.

Peter is an excellent servant; but the fashion of his speech, even when conveying the most trivial information, is slightly sesquipedalian.

Now nobody sees it, and those who do have had their anticipations lengthened leagues by every syllable of its sesquipedalian title.

He said that when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion.

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.

A German lawyer has suggested that his Irish professional peer group is riddled with sesquipedalians.