Grandiloquent Word of the Day
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Used in a sentence:
“I find myself caught in the classic date-night zugzwang when my girlfriend asks if a dress makes her butt look big; it would be easier if I knew which answer she was hoping for.”
“I find myself caught in the classic date-night zugzwang when my girlfriend asks if a dress makes her butt look big; it would be easier if I knew which answer she was hoping for.”
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Used in a sentence:
“I find myself caught in the classic date-night zugzwang when my girlfriend asks if a dress makes her butt look big; it would be easier if I knew which answer she was hoping for.”
“I find myself caught in the classic date-night zugzwang when my girlfriend asks if a dress makes her butt look big; it would be easier if I knew which answer she was hoping for.”
Used in a sentence:
“There was something intolerably deliberate in the arcane script’s obvolute arrangement, as though the writing had been devised not to convey knowledge but to ensnare the reader, folding thought back upon thought until all meaning became lost in a void of madness.”
“There was something intolerably deliberate in the arcane script’s obvolute arrangement, as though the writing had been devised not to convey knowledge but to ensnare the reader, folding thought back upon thought until all meaning became lost in a void of madness.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Used in a sentence:
“There was something intolerably deliberate in the arcane script’s obvolute arrangement, as though the writing had been devised not to convey knowledge but to ensnare the reader, folding thought back upon thought until all meaning became lost in a void of madness.”
“There was something intolerably deliberate in the arcane script’s obvolute arrangement, as though the writing had been devised not to convey knowledge but to ensnare the reader, folding thought back upon thought until all meaning became lost in a void of madness.”
Used in a sentence:
“It was a temerarious stage act, even by Las Vegas standards, to taunt fate nightly with fire and blades, wearing a smile that called to mind Kubrick’s unsettling movie about the haunted corridors of the Overlook Hotel.”
“It was a temerarious stage act, even by Las Vegas standards, to taunt fate nightly with fire and blades, wearing a smile that called to mind Kubrick’s unsettling movie about the haunted corridors of the Overlook Hotel.”
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Used in a sentence:
“It was a temerarious stage act, even by Las Vegas standards, to taunt fate nightly with fire and blades, wearing a smile that called to mind Kubrick’s unsettling movie about the haunted corridors of the Overlook Hotel.”
“It was a temerarious stage act, even by Las Vegas standards, to taunt fate nightly with fire and blades, wearing a smile that called to mind Kubrick’s unsettling movie about the haunted corridors of the Overlook Hotel.”
Used in a sentence:
“I may bear the charge of being a handschuhschneeballwerfer; nevertheless, I retained my full complement of fingers, which is more than could be said for you idiotic lot.”
“I may bear the charge of being a handschuhschneeballwerfer; nevertheless, I retained my full complement of fingers, which is more than could be said for you idiotic lot.”
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Used in a sentence:
“I may bear the charge of being a handschuhschneeballwerfer; nevertheless, I retained my full complement of fingers, which is more than could be said for you idiotic lot.”
“I may bear the charge of being a handschuhschneeballwerfer; nevertheless, I retained my full complement of fingers, which is more than could be said for you idiotic lot.”
Used in a sentence:
“Craving the continuous comfort of catnaps, Clara’s clinomania compels her to cocoon herself in her cherished chamber, clinging to cushions and cozy covers while chasing her cherished childhood dreams.”
“Craving the continuous comfort of catnaps, Clara’s clinomania compels her to cocoon herself in her cherished chamber, clinging to cushions and cozy covers while chasing her cherished childhood dreams.”
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Used in a sentence:
“Craving the continuous comfort of catnaps, Clara’s clinomania compels her to cocoon herself in her cherished chamber, clinging to cushions and cozy covers while chasing her cherished childhood dreams.”
“Craving the continuous comfort of catnaps, Clara’s clinomania compels her to cocoon herself in her cherished chamber, clinging to cushions and cozy covers while chasing her cherished childhood dreams.”
Used in a sentence:
“The moment she realized she’d hit ‘send’ instead of ‘save draft,’ and saw who’d been included in the email, she slumped back in her chair and whispered, ‘Hadivist… I hope the CEO is too busy to read that.’”
“The moment she realized she’d hit ‘send’ instead of ‘save draft,’ and saw who’d been included in the email, she slumped back in her chair and whispered, ‘Hadivist… I hope the CEO is too busy to read that.’”
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Used in a sentence:
“The moment she realized she’d hit ‘send’ instead of ‘save draft,’ and saw who’d been included in the email, she slumped back in her chair and whispered, ‘Hadivist… I hope the CEO is too busy to read that.’”
“The moment she realized she’d hit ‘send’ instead of ‘save draft,’ and saw who’d been included in the email, she slumped back in her chair and whispered, ‘Hadivist… I hope the CEO is too busy to read that.’”