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

As at the table of Prior's pococurante couple— "Their ale was strong, their wine was port, �Their meal was large, their grace was short."

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield