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pachydermatous
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "pachydermatous":- They could talk of nothing but how splendid it was to be with the regiment, and how admirably this or that officer had behaved, and one would suppose that such conversation would have been galling to an able- bodied listener; but that pachydermatous quality, to which allusion has been made, stood Gleason in good stead. - "Marion's Faith.", Charles King.
- Mrs. Elton was as submissive to her coachman as ladies who have carriages generally are, and would not have dreamed of ordering the horses out so soon again for herself; but she forgot everything else when a friend was in need of help, and became perfectly pachydermatous to the offended looks or indignant hints of that important functionary. - "David Elginbrod", George MacDonald.
- But if you don't leave your spun- sugar confectionery business once in a while, and come out among lusty men- the bristly, pachydermatous fellows that hew out the highways for the material progress of society, and the broad- shouldered, out- of- door men that fight for the great prizes of life- you will come to think that the spun- sugar business is the chief end of man, and begin to feel and look as if you believed yourself as much above common people as that personage of whom Tourgueneff says that" he had the air of his own statue erected by national subscription" - "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).