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Floccinaucinihilipilification 

The act or instance of judging something to be useless of trivial. One of the largest usable words in the english dictionary.
It doesn't take a war to cause the Floccinaucinihilipilification of oil in the eyes of inteligent people, but it does for politicians and all of the other politic-craving idiots.

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION 

the consideration or estimation of something as useless or valueless.
My wife's floccinaucinihilipilification
of money was readily apparent. She would just as soon spend it all before I made it.
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION by weave September 15, 2003

floccinaucinihilipilification 

The act or habit of estimating something as being worthless
Jacob: "I promise I won't get all political"
*Two drinks later*
Jacob: "Let me to indulge in the floccinaucinihilipilification of the judges of the European Union!..."

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION 

(29 letters; an estimation of something as worthless) is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED2 shows a use of this word in a 1741 letter by William Shenstone (1714-1763), a British poet and essayist. It has been used by Sir Walter Scott and Senators Robert Byrd and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It was used by Senator Jesse Helms in 1999 during the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Randolph V. Cinco. It also appeared on March 14, 1996, in "Zippy," a comic strip distributed by King Features Syndicate:
Do you think I may be too quick to find fault with things and people, Zippy?
Yeh.
Th' 'floccinaucinihilipilification' process.
Th' what?
Floccinaucinihilipilification!! It means 'the estimation of something as valueless'!
You've been randomly reading th' dictionary, haven't you?
Yes. That and my natural tendency toward antifloccinaucinihilipilification!!

Floccinaucinihilipilification 

The action of habit of classifying something as worthless. It is also one letter longer than antidisestablishmentarianism.
Yes, my apparent floccinaucinihilipilification of both you and your canine companion was meant to be stupendously supercilious.

Floccinaucinihilipilification 

Floccinaucinihilipilification is the estimation of something as valueless. Ironically, floccinaucinihilipilification is a pretty valueless word itself; it’s almost never used except as an example of a long word.
This pipe is really floccinaucinihilipilification.
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