Crossword-Solution: SESQUIPEDALIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sesquipedalian | a. | Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SESQUIPEDALIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Employing big words | 1 answer |
| Given to using long words | 1 answer |
| Characterized by the use of long words | 1 answer |
| Long, as words. | 1 answer |
| Polysyllabic | 1 answer |
| given to the overuse of long words | 1 answer |
| tending to use long or cumbersome words | 1 answer |
| Johnsonian | 8 answers |
| bluffing | 9 answers |
| hyperbolical | 10 answers |
| Pedantic | 19 answers |
| Expanded | 32 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| Boastful | 54 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| rhetorical | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SESQUIPEDALIAN (5)
But it was no use delaying now; off I went in a wild waterspout to Apia; found Charlie (Salé) Taylor—a sesquipedalian young half-caste—not yet ready, had a snack of bread and cheese at the hotel while waiting him, and then off to Malie.
Poor Miss Matty got sadly puzzled with this, for the words gathered size like snowballs, and towards the end of her letter Miss Jenkyns used to become quite sesquipedalian.
Aramis and I had to use such words in our strategic studies and castramentative experiments.” D’Artagnan recoiled, as though the sesquipedalian syllables had knocked the breath out of his body.
Worst of all, the three handsome volumes are rendered unreadable as Sale's Koran by their anglicised Latin, their sesquipedalian un English words, and the stiff and stilted style of half a century ago when our prose was, perhaps, the worst in Europe.
Burton, notes in hand, stood on the platform, facing the great audience, his brain heavy with arguments and bursting with sesquipedalian and sledge-hammer words to pulverize his exasperating opponent.
Quotes with SESQUIPEDALIAN (1)
If it's any consolation, Princess, I think he's a supercilious, salacious sap.""You've been reading the dictionary!""My only hope of comprehending your conversation, my petite sesquipedalian.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1965–1979).