Sesquipedalian

I briefly toyed with the idea of naming my Yorkie "Sesquipedalian" -- like Audrey Hepburn had named her dog "Famous" -- but he was simply too small for the name.

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Never in our wildest dreams did we aspire to such a feat as getting the word "Sesquipedalian" into the headline on the front page of our newspaper.

NYT A1: Sesquipedalian!!!! - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

The New York Times, mimicking his trademark predilection for obscure polysyllabic words, called him the “Sesquipedalian Spark of the Right.”

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Colacello, Bob 2009

The New York Times, mimicking his trademark predilection for obscure polysyllabic words, called him the “Sesquipedalian Spark of the Right.”

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Bob Colacello 2009

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Sesquipedalian Blatherskite 2006

I fully expected the “World’s Favourite Ass-Kicking Sesquipedalian Librarian” to crash a tea party, defend a diminutive guild, hitch a ride on a time machine, battle primeval monsters, or something literary like that.

What I bought – 21 November 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

Sesquipedalian: The big word for 'big words' comes from Latin sesquipedalis, "a foot and a half long, hence inordinately long,"

Harriet Harman's Lesson in Shallowness 2007

 Remember: according to the cover, Rex is the "World's Favourite Ass-Kicking Sesquipedalian Librarian!"

What I bought – 21 November 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

But in his case it is just simple right wing politics with a thin veneer of Sesquipedalian Obscurantism ** and rabble rousing.

Ruse on Kitzmiller v. Dover - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Sesquipedalian periods were spiritual nectar and ambrosia.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910