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elephantine

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Lloyd Grove on the elephantine cleanup challenges of having an unruly collection of egomaniacs as backers.

General Botha was big, large and great in body and brain—elephantine!

They, like the press as a whole, were obviously waiting to see which way the great elephantine public would jump.

The Professor, as I remembered him, had an elephantine sense of humour capable of the most clumsy and unwieldly gambollings.

He bowed and shrugged and spread open his hands as he spoke with his elaborate and elephantine sarcasm.

There was something elephantine about his nature that prevented him from being simple or casual in his moods.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to elephantine, such as: behemothic, big, colossal, enormous, extensive, and gargantuan.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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