Wonderful, irregular, and unnecessarily are polysyllabic words. From LearnThat.org.
It's one less polysyllabic name for me to remember. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Latest Polls Show Bush Leading Presidential Race - October 22, 2000] Reference
A polyrhythmic and polysyllabic flight of wild fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend: songs about anniversaries] Reference
It contained about a hundred polysyllabic African words. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Apparently I write a lot of short polysyllabic sentences…. From Wordnik.com. [Are you happy with your Fog Index? « knitnut.net] Reference
I'll try not to get polysyllabic on you so you can absorb this. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Media Claim: U.S.] Reference
A chain of monosyllabic words gets broken by polysyllabic words. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
My classmates twisted themselves into elegant polysyllabic knots. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
This handy app generates polysyllabic slurs, so you don't have to. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: October 19, 2003 - October 25, 2003 Archives] Reference
The polysyllabic words obfuscate, rather than clarify, the action. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 636] Reference
I know that the "annotate all polysyllabic words" policy is annoying. From Wordnik.com. [Anthologizing] Reference
It shouted what seemed one long, polysyllabic, extremely grateful word. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
His speech, by contrast, didn't use very many polysyllabic words at all. From Wordnik.com. [magna comes loudly] Reference
Whenever possible the student should use polysyllabic words where shorter, clearer words would suffice. From Wordnik.com. [Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?] Reference
To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
So he makes up stuff, throws in a polysyllabic word or two for effect, and refuses to admit he is flat wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building: ‘No One Likes Paying Taxes’] Reference
(Either that or this transplant simply can't comprehend the term when spoken with a polysyllabic Dallas drawl.). From Wordnik.com. [The 'Riffs Interview: 'CYANIDE & HAPPINESS's' Dave McElfatrick tackles visas, viscera & American humor] Reference
Chelsea has decided that Aunt Grace is Wonder Woman, with her easy polysyllabic vocabulary and her knotty biceps. From Wordnik.com. [Black and Blue]
Environmentalist is just a polysyllabic way of saying conservationist, and even that has too many syllables in it. From Wordnik.com. [Has Jesus Come and Gone?] Reference
Corporate prose conformed to an equation: information x polysyllabic words + tortured syntax = aren't you impressed?. From Wordnik.com. [Write For Your Life] Reference
Swan was in the throes of an apparently severe religious relapse, muttering a continuous polysyllabic one-word prayer. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
The use of polysyllabic and unintelligible words is therein recommended, probably as a goad to the patient's imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Even with Bones 'hearing deficiencies it was usually possible to recognize a slowly-uttered, isolated, polysyllabic word. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
And it was useless to argue the matter -- nay it was folly, for he would immediately become polysyllabic and talk one down. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
He is marvelously well read and accessible, and tends not to use as many polysyllabic words as some of the great minds here. From Wordnik.com. [Readercon, the thinking person's con] Reference
The idiots in the press don't know an apostolic administration from a plum pudding and can't remember the polysyllabic name. From Wordnik.com. [Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009] Reference
He could easily wield polysyllabic technical vocabularies, but for his own prose voice he chose the most accessible of styles. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Languages] Reference
An autological word describes itself, e.g., ˜polysyllabic™ is polysllabic, ˜English™ is English, ˜noun™ is a noun, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemic Paradoxes] Reference
Elsewhere, anti-healthcare protesters objected to the language of the House bill, saying there were too many polysyllabic words. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
And not everything we feel, let alone everything we are, is shaped by too much or too little of some polysyllabic brain chemical. From Wordnik.com. [One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You] Reference
Equipped with ecumenical knowledge and a polysyllabic vocabulary, he represents the omnipotent to whom clients look for guidance. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan] Reference
An analogous case to this distributed stress but with monosyllables instead of polysyllabic words is the familiar line in Lycidas. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
You will be helped in this task by using polysyllabic words and complex sentence structure, as she seems to have a grasp of neither. From Wordnik.com. [Wacko Bush] Reference
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. From Wordnik.com. [December 7th, 2005] Reference
In living rooms across the city, New Yorkers saw Bill in all his polysyllabic glory: handsome, urbane and possessed of a devastating charm. From Wordnik.com. [God and Man and Bill] Reference
From Fort William, at the head of Lake Superior, the little expedition entered a river with a polysyllabic name, which leads farther on, to the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
And, from other laboratories, all the pesticides and fungicides and herbicides of modern agriculture (and warfare), bristling with polysyllabic menace. From Wordnik.com. [Three Magic Wands] Reference
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