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• Sir Walter Scott (Journal, March 8, 1826, with ‘pauci’ as the second element rather than ‘nauci’):

::[... I] have arrived at a flocci-pauci-nihili-pili-fication of money, and I thank Whetstone for inventing that long word.

• The comic strip Zippy the Pinhead (March 14, 1996):

::”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!!”

• Jesse Helms (1999), in reference to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty:

::”I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the CTBT.” (Helms claims he learned the word from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan)

• Mike McCurry (1995), United States President Bill Clinton’s press secretary:

::”But if you — as a practical matter of estimating the economy, the difference is not great. There’s a little bit of floccinaucinihilipilification going on here.”

• Robert A. Heinlein, in The Puppet Masters (1951):

::”Digby was a floccinaucinihilipilificator at heart which is an eight-dollar word meaning a joker who does not believe in anything he can’t bite.”

• Robert A. Heinlein, in The Number of the Beast (1980):

::”Sharpie darling, you are a floccinaucinihilipilificatrix.”
::”Is that a compliment?”
::”Certainly! Means you’re so sharp you spot the slightest flaw.”
::I kept quiet. It was possible that Zebadiah meant it as a compliment. Just barely- “Maybe I’d better check it in a dictionary.”
::”By all means, dear-after you are off watch.” (I dismissed the matter. Merriam Microfilm was all we had aboard and Aunt Hilda would not find that word in anything less than the O.E.D.)

• Bob Black, in “A Study In Floccinaucinihilipilification”

::slams libertarians Murray Bookchin and Timothy Balash

• Brak, in The Brack Show: “Brakstreet” November 3, 2002

::Boasts “‘Surrender’ is not in my vocabulary, my good man,” and ends, whining “… but, then, neither is ‘Floccinaucinihilipilification’!”

• Adam Spencer’s Book of Numbers gives an example of the word being used:

::Fred: Hey Bill, heard the new Celine Dion album?
::Bill: It’s absolute crap!
::Fred: Well, there’s no need for floccinaucinihilipilification.

Source: Wikiquote