pococurante

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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

“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 Scott, Walter, Sir

Aristophanes was more of a politician and a patriot, Lucian more of a freethinker, Horace more of a simple pococurante.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George