multi-syllabic

If I wrote in the third person, too many multi-syllabic words and adult locutions would steal in.

“Sometimes the Voice Works, and Sometimes It Doesn’t” 2009

If I wrote in the third person, too many multi-syllabic words and adult locutions would steal in.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

And, except for a multi-syllabic faux-eloquence, the same went for Bill Buckley.

Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Media’s Human Capital Problem 2009

It's that tripping, multi-syllabic word that sounds like a bell clanging: "tintinnabulation" that I love so much.

Edgar Allan Poe: On his birthday, a celebration of his words Melissa Bell 2011

Sitting across from his physician, who is rapidly regurgitating multi-syllabic medical terms into his Dictaphone that describe the life-threatening tumor growing on Adam's spine, we see first-hand how the shadow of death blurs and clarifies a person's version of what's real, solidifies and disintegrates relationships, and brings out the best and worst in ourselves and in those we love or who we think love us.

Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Seeing '50/50' Through The Eyes Of Psalm 23 Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2011

Barely old enough to recognize my own multi-syllabic name, I asked my grandparents about it, but was shushed and told it wasn't important.

Megan Smolenyak: A Funeral on My 50th Megan Smolenyak 2010

Buy a dictionary and learn the meanings of some of the multi-syllabic words you pretend to know.

Irving Kristol, conservative thinker, dies at 89 2009

However, by the time Johnny was handed his fourth grade social studies and science textbooks, he was not at all prepared for the multi-syllabic decoding, academic vocabulary, and expository text structure of these books.

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read « Articles « Literacy News 2009

Questionable contentsPick up a bottle of shampoo, a stick of deodorant or lipstick and - if you can get past the multi-syllabic names on the label - you will see a number of compounds derived from animals, including pigs - which are considered haram or forbidden, versus halal, or permissible, under Muslim dietary laws.

Halal Cosmetics Founder Hopes to Broaden Appeal 2010

Psychological reports always contain many multi-syllabic words, and make lofty and sometimes astonishing claims of success supported by numerous statistics and research data.

Sandy Kaczmarski: Kane County Program for Troubled Teens "Magical" 2010