diction
Example Sentences
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What he used this week was not the diction of the common man but the language of sociopathy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
An American Shakespearean who can hold his own with the Brits, he combines mellifluous diction with muscular imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026
But elevated diction is one of the facades behind which “Call the Midwife” pretends to be a TV program so gentle and mild.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
I knew the relaxed patois of the South Side and the high-minded diction of the Ivy League, and now on top of that I spoke Lawyer, too.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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