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ses-kweh-puh-DAYL-yehn
adjective
the habit or propensity to use really big words
1897The BeetlePeter is an excellent servant; but the fashion of his speech, even when conveying the most trivial information, is slightly sesquipedalian. He would have made a capital cabinet minister at question time—he wraps up the smallest petitions of meaning in the largest possible words.1906The Life of Sir Richard BurtonBurton, 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.Labels: Richard Marsh, Thomas Wright
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