altitudinous
Example Sentences
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Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is not that the temperature is excessively altitudinous," responded the Parson, "but the presence of a larger proportion of humidity retards perspiratory exudation."
From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair
Ensconced upon the more altitudinous seat of authority he swung his lash out with a report like a starting-gun and made his way, with the necessary language, across the open and up Claxton Road.
From The Wrong Woman by Charles D. Stewart
You would not risk your neck to read My much too altitudinous screed, And I, chagrined and half-perplexed, Had missed you when I missed my text— Get Next.
From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke
