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Tharoor's new book on Modi is not just 'floccinaucinihilipilification'

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Oct 10 2018 | 5:20 PM IST

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Wednesday once again introduced Twitterati and the literati to a difficult, near unpronounceable word, describing his new book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "more than just a 400-page exercise in floccinaucinihilipilification".

According to the Oxford dictionary, the word is a noun and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless".

Discussing the usage of the word, the dictionary adds, "Floccinaucinihilipilification is one of a number of very long words that occur very rarely in genuine use."
According to the description of the book on Amazon, "Shashi Tharoor has stitched together a compelling portrait of this paradoxical figure (Narendra Modi),"

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First Published: Oct 10 2018 | 5:20 PM IST

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