Word of the Day: Sesquipedalian

[Aunt Marg]

Sesquipedalian: (plural sesquipedalianisms) (uncountable). The practice of using long, sometimes obscure words in speech or writing.

The guest speaker wore the audience out with his sesquipedalian prose.

 

[Ruthanne]

I won't be sesquipedalian, so I'll just shut up now!

 

[Em in Ohio]

One of my writing instructors scolded me for sesquipedalianistic tendencies and told me to keep my writing fit for a third grade reading level! (I dropped her class!)