Word: sesquipedalian
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...gives me the creeps"), and he suffers from the peculiar delusion that anything written about a cocktail party is bound to be funny. He also lapses frequently into college humor (speaking of nervous ailments: "Have you heard of the roofer who got shingles from Sears, Roebuck?"), and sesquipedalian prose ("Amidst verbal wonders and linguistic portents the stultification of English was caused by the decapitation of words as well as by unwonted lengthening"). But at his best he is a very funny man. Readers will be well advised to hold their sides and beware of that first fine careless rupture...
...professional matter of course; he expressed greater satisfaction in the report's style and readability. Says Burns: "I've always considered writing important. I went through all the stages that economists go through, from jargon to lucidity, and on the way I passed through the sesquipedalian* stage...
...weakness for using words like "sesquipedalian...
...critic's "livid" might have been a slip 'twixt the pen and the press; nevertheless, his little bundle of skillfully modulated sesquipedalian (or is it sesqui-pedantic?) phrases is a stodgy example of journalism uninhibited by idiomatic terminology. Sydney H. Sohanberg '55 Robert A. Spangler...
Graham remembered him as a young instructor at North Carolina, where he had been a rangy prodigy who played first base on the scrub baseball team a few years before. Others remembered him on his first trip abroad, a lanky six-footer who used "mouth-filling sesquipedalian words," wore high-necked collars, and was determined to become Shaw's Boswell. He had taken one mathematics Ph.D. at North Carolina, took another at the University of Chicago. In between, he studied under Einstein at the University of Berlin...