Word: polysyllabicism
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There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described...
The unfortunate and long-suffering Mickey in Brazil is known (believe it or not) by the polysyllabic and extraordinarily clumsy name of Camondongo Mickey. Try it on Carmen, and see if she does not react!
Kangerdlugssuatsiaq. Paul-Emile Victor looks like a young man about Paris. He is an outstanding French ethnographer who has the frozen field of Eskimo doings pretty much to himself. He speaks fluently their polysyllabic language which for most people is as tough as a piece of walrus gristle. At Kangerdlugssuatsiaq...
She has been accused of being an oppositionist, of having no program of her own. Dorothy Thompson has a program for herself. It is aristo-democratic, polysyllabic and not so very clear. Excerpts:
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously...