polysyllabic

• Small, commonly used words communicate better than polysyllabic (I mean, "big") words that do little to enhance communication but show off your large vocabulary. —  CareerSuperStar
• Major Pain from Canada writes: I find it highly surprising that Rex Murphy, that righteous defender of all things polysyllabic (even in circumstances when an abbreviated 'mot' might be more appropriate) should have trouble 'reading' Obama, as he seems to take great satisfaction in demonstrating to us, the great unwashed, his ability to be well read on even the most dense of subjects. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• The railroad attorney who was asked to write a notice that would warn people to be careful at railroad crossings did not dig into his law books for a polysyllabic sentence like this: "Whereas this is the intersection of a public highway with the right-of-way of the Railroad Corporation, each and every individual is hereby advised to exercise extreme caution." —  Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School
• What progress was made was due to European instruction; and this again is the causa causans of the great wave of progress in scientific and philosophical knowledge which is rolling over the whole country and will have marked effects on the history of the world during the coming century Language Originally polysyllabic, the Chinese language later assumed a monosyllabic, isolating, uninflected form, grammatical relations being indicated by position. —  Myths and Legends of China
• A woman took him, in the wet forenoon, to a pronouncement on the Oneness of Impulse in Humanity, which struck him as a polysyllabic résumé of Mr. Sidney's domestic arrangements, plus a clarion call to 'shock civilisation into common-sense And you'll come to tea with me to-morrow?' —  A Diversity of Creatures

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