They belong in the category because they contain polysyllable words and can be slightly harder to read and follow. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Right alongside of this are vocabulary choices – go with the polysyllable or the Anglo-Saxon four letter version?. From Wordnik.com. [Decisions, Decisions « Hyperpat’s HyperDay] Reference
Spite is a little word; but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings, and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
She then thanked the lady in the lift for pushing button 1, and remarked to me, "The lady pushed 1 which is for us because we need to go to 1, wasn't it unintelligible polysyllable of the lady?". From Wordnik.com. [Today's Emer word: "Dow[n]". Today's stress: shoe-shopping] Reference
He spoke in sentences that clocked in at a grade-school level, the speed of delivery was lugubrious, or perhaps aimed at the part of the audience that processes the occasional polysyllable rather slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: The Speeches] Reference
She could have informed you that there was such a word as "polygamy," and being also acquainted with "polysyllable," she had deduced the conclusion that "poly" meant "many"; but she had had no idea that gypsies were not well supplied with groceries, and her thoughts were the oddest mixture of clear-eyed acumen and blind dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Yes, it is a polysyllable '-- as, indeed, he had added an unnecessary syllable. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
If we fight over this polysyllable nonsensical argument, we are boxing the air and airing out our gums. From Wordnik.com. [Pulpit Pimps] Reference
The meaning of the formidable-looking polysyllable, which Egyptian lips found easier than 'Joseph,' is uncertain. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
And yet it is heard in words of every degree, from the monsyllable of two letters to the polysyllable of seventeen. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools,] Reference
He has slain the polysyllable, that huge and slimy centipede which has sprawled over all the valleys of England like the. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
She sometimes even glanced approvingly at her disciple's flying fingers when she uttered a polysyllable of more than usual distinction. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
We have here a clue to the effect of polysyllables, above all in Latin, where they are so common and make so brave an architecture in the verse; for the polysyllable is. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in the Art of Writing] Reference
Gilbert 'supposed he was in for it,' but 'did not see the use of it,' he was sick of the name of 'that polysyllable,' and 'should see enough of him when Mr. Hope came, worse luck.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
"I've been performing my ablutions," he said, rolling out the last word with great emphasis and pomposity, for, like many Scotchmen, he had the greatest possible reverence for a sonorous polysyllable. From Wordnik.com. [The Firm of Girdlestone] Reference
It's a deliciously animated, 3-D kids' flick that sticks a Latinate polysyllable in the title, spins a subversive plot where every adult character is a villain, and, for once, puts all 3 of those Ds to imaginative use. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Palin may be proud she can handle a polysyllable like "socialist" without screwing it up, but the rest of the world is terrified to think that she may have any input, at all, in shaping our foreign policy, and we should be, too. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Democrats of America Blog] Reference
But each disdaining to visit the other, to discuss so trivial an affair, the business of negotiating an understanding was committed to certain plenipos, men with lengthy tongues, who scorned to utter a word short of a polysyllable. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ca'tion. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
It was because of something in me that could not be hidden; stealing out in an occasional polysyllable; an otherwise incomprehensible deliberation in dining; remote, unguarded allusions to Belles-Lettres affairs; and other trifles superfluous to mention. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
She could have informed you that there was such a word as "polygamy," and being also acquainted with "polysyllable," she had deduced the conclusion that "poly" mean "many"; but she had had no idea that gypsies were not well supplied with groceries, and her thoughts generally were the oddest mixture of clear-eyed acumen and blind dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
She could have informed you that there was such a word as polygamy, and being also acquainted with polysyllable, she had deduced the conclusion that poly mean many; but she had had no idea that gypsies were not well supplied with groceries, and her thoughts generally were the oddest mixture of clear-eyed acumen and blind dreams. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow. Book IBoy and Girl] Reference
(crossing herself with superstitious awe at the polysyllable). From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
Democritus of Fleet Street, "on the strength of his" memorable monosyllabic monition, "in turn salutes the immortal protagonist of the purple polysyllable. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
Thanks to my mother's persistency in keeping me up to the mark with regard to my lessons, long before I had recourse to the crammer, this introductory stage of the examination presented no difficulties to me; and I was able not only to keep pace with the gentleman who dictated a portion of one of Macaulay's Essays to us, but also found time to look round me occasionally to see how my companions fared with the big words, the faces of some of them presenting quite a study when a portentous polysyllable was given them to spell. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
The formidable polysyllable simply means. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
This last polysyllable settled the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference
30. polysyllable. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
After about a half-hour's ride, we stopped at a large and very old-fashioned house, built in strict conformity with the Elizabethan style of architecture, over the portals of which, upon a deep blue board, in very, very bright gold letters, flashed forth that word so awful to little boys, so big with associations of long tasks and wide-spreading birch, the Greek-derived polysyllable, ACADEMY!. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
As he proceeded, delivering the sounding sentences, ` ore rotundo, 'and emphasising each thundering polysyllable with a fierce gesture of his clenched fist, I observed that the individual before mentioned, whom the orator seemed to have chosen to represent Catiline, and who, without understanding Latin, could very well perceive that there was something menacing and vituperative in the language addressed to him, began to look at first puzzled, and then incensed. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
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