Definitions
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- adverb   In a 
polysyllabic way. 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a polysyllabic manner
 
Etymologies
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Examples
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He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
The Two Obamas: ‘Dr. Barack’ and ‘Fast Eddie’ Obama | Disinformation 2008
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He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
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Talking as if I were myself a wild Communist, the voice of the rough and simple masses of the poor, and therefore using the longest words I can and putting what I mean as pedantically and polysyllabically as possible, I might state the matter thus.
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Now and again, the interviews with talking heads, who wax polysyllabically about Nascimento's short and desperate life, get a little overbearing.
What's Doing In Rio? 2007
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I had imagined him in a cave surrounded by gadgets and smoke and speaking polysyllabically, not sitting in a hotel room concerned that the mildly retarded individual that was supposed to be interviewing him was having trouble getting through.
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- A startup whose slogan is "giving technologies new meaning" lives up to that promise, with a polysyllabically dense pitch spammed to Valleywag's tips inbox.
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- A startup whose slogan is "giving technologies new meaning" lives up to that promise, with a polysyllabically dense pitch spammed to Valleywag's tips inbox.
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- A startup whose slogan is "giving technologies new meaning" lives up to that promise, with a polysyllabically dense pitch spammed to Valleywag's tips inbox.
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- A startup whose slogan is "giving technologies new meaning" lives up to that promise, with a polysyllabically dense pitch spammed to Valleywag's tips inbox.
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- A startup whose slogan is "giving technologies new meaning" lives up to that promise, with a polysyllabically dense pitch spammed to Valleywag's tips inbox.
 
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