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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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All those big words produce disgust today.

Dejan Stojanovic , em The Sun Watches the Sun
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...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

Jon Fosse , em Aliss at the Fire
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It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.

L.M. Montgomery , em Anne of Green Gables
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