Examples
“For some reason I thought it would be dry (who knows why), but instead I found a sympathetic account of a shoe fetishist that has an attempt to capture his sexual worldview, (skip to the next para if you have a deliciate sensibility) a description that ended with the neologism "footcunt.”
“Egyptian officials were tight-lipped about the talks, saying any pubic exposure could damage a highly deliciate negotiation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deliciate’.
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Poetic Words
A list of flowery or eloquent words appropriate for poetry. Also some I think would sound amusing or funny in poetry.
lachrymose, marmoreal, droll, tortuous, sycophantic, sporadic, requiem, sensuous, myriad, melancholy, afterlithe, neif and 21 more...
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20 Obsolete Words that Should Make a ...
"If we all start using them, these words can be resurrected."
jargogle, deliciate, corrade, kench, ludibrious, sanguinolency, jollux, malagrugous, brabble, freck, brannigan, perissology and 8 more...
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Seedy's Words
dustyfoot, o-dark-thirty, architrave crown, limbeck, galoot, feckless, smock, snood, sleck, noceur, rake, libertine and 33 more...
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Beautiful words
Visually or orally orgasmic.
syzygy, dichotomy, abstract, bellicose, chrysalis, effluent, facade, grandiose, hubris, incandescence, juxtapose, kaleidoscope and 65 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM proposes National Deliciate Day today - come on, indulge me!! May 3, 2010
mollusque To revel, luxuriate; to fill with delight, render delightful. May 7, 2008