Sentence examples for fancy vocabulary from inspiring English sources

The reader doesn't need a fancy vocabulary of taste; he just needs to know the score.

In one of the articles, Ms. Holland said: "Someone had used very fancy vocabulary, inventing phrases that didn't make sense.

Slyly eliciting different meanings from words like underground, flat and, yes, change, he proves that you don't need a fancy vocabulary to create intellectually complex effects.

This tends to happen with more complex words, and especially if you're trying to fake looking smarter by using really fancy vocabulary that you don't actually understand yet.

In 1912 The Real Estate Record and Guide noted that "it is the fashion now in this section to number houses instead of bestowing fancy names, the vocabulary of good names having been well nigh exhausted".

Hearing that a Bangladeshi teenager hangs around on the streets because his flat is full of his 10 siblings, Chanu turns to what he fancies a sociological vocabulary.

The irrepressible, unapologetic individuality — and excellent vocabulary — of "Fancy Nancy"?

Don't be fooled by their fancy accents and vast vocabularies: the British are actually at least as celebrity-mad as their American cousins.

Malherbe called for a simple, harmonious metre and a sober, almost prosaic vocabulary, pruned of poetic fancy.

Fancy words are only impressive to other people with vast vocabularies, and substituting someone's name for a fake name only works if you provide enough detail to let the reader know who you are talking about.

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