pococurante
Example Sentences
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Learning the meanings of the words they will be asked to spell—vivisepulture, succedaneum, pococurante, cymotrichous, guetapens—won’t make these children any smarter, more driven, or more appreciative of language and education than they already are.
From Slate ● May 28, 2015
Like a kamikaze on a luge, he has a pococurante knack for creating a promiscuous fracas among his young rivals.
From Time ● Mar. 13, 2014
Learning the meanings of the words they will be asked to spell—vivisepulture, succedaneum, pococurante, cymotrichous, guetapens—won’t make these children any smarter, more driven, and more appreciative of language and education than they already are.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
But for myself, although I assure you not a pococurante, I cannot help thinking there is no slight dash of the commonplace.'
From Sketches by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
“I believe you are misinformed, sir,” said Jekyl dryly, and then resumed, as deftly as he could, his proper character of a pococurante.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
