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adv. - In a long and ponderous manner.

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  • He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
  • Now and again, the interviews with talking heads, who wax polysyllabically about Nascimento's short and desperate life, get a little overbearing.
  • Talking as if I were myself a wild Communist, the voice of the rough and simple masses of the poor, and therefore using the longest words I can and putting what I mean as...
  • - A startup whose slogan is "giving technologies new meaning" lives up to that promise, with a polysyllabically dense pitch spammed to Valleywag's tips inbox.
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