pococurante

• “COLLINS: We are interested, though, in your last word, "pococurante," which we are all becoming very familiar with this morning.”

  CNN Transcript May 30, 2003

• “Lors des championnats les plus récents, les mots qui ont permis aux gagnants de remporter la victoire ont été pococurante, autochthonous, appoggiatura, ursprache, serrefine, guerdon et Laodicean.”

  Archive 2010-07-01

• “The winning words in recent competitions have included: pococurante; autochthonous; appoggiatura; ursprache; serrefine; guerdon; Laodicean.”

  Archive 2010-06-01

• ““I believe you are misinformed, sir,” said Jekyl dryly, and then resumed, as deftly as he could, his proper character of a pococurante.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “Archibald, though a follower of the court, and a pococurante by profession, was confused, if not affected; the dairy-maid blubbered; and Jeanie felt the tears rise spontaneously to her eyes.”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “Also, just so everyone's just totally sure pococurante is NOT pronounced "Po-Cock-Your-Auntie.”

  hamletwildie Diary Entry

• “The tight pantaloons, the authoritative voice, the pococurante manner, and the broken”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “And we had one of those cards for pococurante, so that's how I remembered it.”

  CNN Transcript May 30, 2003

• “For me, as you may have found out, I am the _pococurante_ senator, and above all things very free in saying what I think.”

  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre

• “Rake stared, and looked at him blankly; in this man who spoke to him with so subdued but so irresistible a power of command, he could scarcely recognize the gay, indolent, indulgent, pococurante Guardsman, whose most serious anxiety had been the set of a lace tie, the fashion of his hunting dress, or the choice of the gold arabesques for his smoking-slippers.”

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