10 example sentences using sesquipedalian.
Sesquipedalian used in a sentence
Sesquipedalian in a sentence as a noun
Searching for 'sesquipedalian' brings up pages upon pages of dictionary links on Google.
It's rare to run into sesquipedalian loquaciousness, if only because few people can be bothered learning all the synonyms.
Perhaps he's using it on authors known to be grandiloquent, loquacious, and sesquipedalian.
Now it's not as if I deliberately employ sesquipedalian graphology for the express purpose of obfuscation.
Beginnings, Middles, & Ends - Nancy KressI'm also a big believer in having a strong vocabulary, even though I don't try to write in a pretentious, sesquipedalian fashion very often.
Sesquipedalian in a sentence as an adjective
I'm sure voters would swiftly capitulate to the erudition of your insuperable sesquipedalian fulminations.
Some use satire, some use brevity, some use example, some use beat-them-into-submission verbosity, but some use counter example, some play at ludicity, some only elocute in jargon, some lay on the sesquipedalian, and some simply quip.
CY's 'contribution' to politics seems to consist entirely of taking the vulgar prejudices of certain degenerate corners of the internet and giving them a superficially erudite and sesquipedalian form, without actually strengthening the intellectual content.
"The truth is, most US academic prose is appalling: pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipedalian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead.
Alas, it is all too feasible to compose inane comments using sesquipedalian vocabulary and an overly-reticulated sentence structure in which dependent clauses which add nothing to the comment save for syntactic complexity, and sometimes only a small measure of that, as when one just links relative clause to relative clause, are stacked, to no one's benefit, one on top of the other.
Sesquipedalian definitions
a very long word (a foot and a half long)
See also: sesquipedalia
given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"
(of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; "sesquipedalian technical terms"
See also: polysyllabic