Sunday, 28 June 2015

English word that means out of place uncommon word

[As requested, posting this as an answer instead of a comment]



There's lexiphanic, which is using pretentious wording or language, but it doesn't have the sense of intermittence you wanted.



(I found the word by plugging "using long words" into a reverse dictionary. The first two results, sesquipedalian and sesquipedality, are also good, but they don't necessarily have a negative connotation like lexiphanic.)

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