He does not use long, fancy words as Buckley does, though Steibel maintains that Buckley is less of a sesquipedalian in everyday life than he is when the cameras are rolling and the left-leaning guests are squirming.
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgef�hl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
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Besides Numerous novels, Buckley wrote essays and columns that were widely distributed and hosted 1, 429 episodes of the television show " Firing Line " ( 1966 1999 ) where he became known for his transatlantic accent and sesquipedalian vocabulary.
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The point of the sesquipedalian title was to poke fun at those who conceal their lack of real expertise by using long and complicated words, whilst making the serious point that more people are fooled by these so-called experts than really should be.
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You are of course free to use it as you wish, but why is it so important to have a word for it that you're willing to accept that sesquipedalian monstrosity ?-- talk ) 00 : 15, 5 November 2008 ( UTC)
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The conservative man of letters known for his sesquipedalian style _ that is, his love of long fancy words _ will mark his 70th birthday, which actually is on Nov . 24, on Wednesday at a dinner party at New York's Four Seasons restaurant.
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George Carlin shows up as the Architect from " Matrix Reloaded, " spouting sesquipedalian gibberish; Queen Latifah is the Oracle from vhm ! same franchise; and Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy are _ nudge, nudge _ a couple of ripe-for-the-stalking " schoolgirls ."
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Inside Jimmy Magg's that Friday night, the crowd was noisy, and as I squinted across the darkened room, I was unable to find my dinner companion, Bill Marlowe, a disc jockey in Boston for four decades and known for his love of jazz, his mellifluous voice, his extravagant opinions and a vocabulary that was comically sesquipedalian.
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Although I couldn't locate a word that describes a fetish for words, here are some that were close : 1 ) epeolatry-- worship of words 2 ) grammatolatry-- worship of letters and words 3 ) lexiphanic-- bombastic; sesquipedalian; using many long words 4 ) sesquipedalian-- tending to use long or cumbersome words SWAdair 05 : 43, 31 October 2006 ( UTC)
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Although I couldn't locate a word that describes a fetish for words, here are some that were close : 1 ) epeolatry-- worship of words 2 ) grammatolatry-- worship of letters and words 3 ) lexiphanic-- bombastic; sesquipedalian; using many long words 4 ) sesquipedalian-- tending to use long or cumbersome words SWAdair 05 : 43, 31 October 2006 ( UTC)
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