... if you want a crunchy, moderately healthy Halloween snack to munch on ... head to the bulk aisle of your local health food store and pick up some pepitas that are actually fit for human consumption. L. V. Anderson, "You're Doing It Wrong: Pumpkin Seeds," Slate, October 30, 2013
Claire ladled out a Hubbard squash bisque sprinkled with chili-crusted pepitas. Steven Raichlen, Island Apart, 2012
He thought himself canny and alert, able to uncover plots, or flatter the great and trick them, bend events to his will. Tanith Lee, White as Snow, 2000
You have had things all your own way for all your life (... your brothers are much more canny than you are about political issues). Jane Smiley, Private Life, 2010
In my preceding chapters I have tried, by going into the minutiae of the science of piloting, to carry the reader step by step to a comprehension of what the science consists of .... Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
In a thank-you note to his devotees that he tweeted last week, the congressman offered a similar lulling density of minutiae. Katy Waldman, "Beto O'Rourke's Rebirth as a Knausgaardian Blogger," The New Yorker, November 16, 2018
... on his head—pressing down his erumpent red hair—the vaguely Westernish broad-brimmed hat that signalled his difference from other philosophers (as if any such signal were needed) .... John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, 1982
Minutes passed, sun-bathed, as they crossed a stretch of open land; the river slowed, the valley wider, furrowed fields flanking the highway, an erumpent green from rich black soil. David Bosworth, "Psalm," Death of Descartes, 1981
Eric has been a wordie since he was a kid growing up in New York City, a Games magazine acolyte who read the dictionary for fun and subscribes to Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics ... Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak, 2001
As a teacher of English, a part-time poet and a full-time wordie, I took genuine delight in Patricia T. O’Conner’s review of books about language by Ben Yagoda and David Crystal .... Stephen J. Kudless, "Speech, Speech!" Letter to the Editor, New York Times, April 1, 2007
... his faith is pure, though his manners are flagitious. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776–1788
He should have persisted in gloom, which would eventually earn a commercial reward that outran the avarice of his most flagitious villains. Caleb Crain, "Something Wicked This Way Comes," New York Times, December 6, 1998
... a tasteful and récherché stock of frames and feathers and ribbons was chosen .... William Dean Howells, A Woman's Reason, 1882
But, among the books which load their shelves, there is the most recherché collection of European standard works to be found in this country .... "Scribner & Co.," New York Times, December 12, 1874