'Floccinaucinihilipilification': Shashi Tharoor's 29-Letter Word To Describe His New Book On PM Modi

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is at it again. Tharoor has once against introduced people to a difficult and near-unpronounceable word. He used the word to describe his new book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "more than just a 400-page exercise in "floccinaucinihilipilification".

Tharoor's command over English is well known. But it just so happens that he has, more often than not, left audiences and Twitter perplexed with his choice of words. We all remember his “Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations & outright lies” and "rodomontade" tweets that made us flip the dictionary. And now he is back at it.

That long 29-letter word at the end of the caption may seem like a keyboard malfunction. But it is actually a word in the dictionary which means, “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.”

His tweet has now gone viral, with people taking digs at the Congress leader's use of elaborate words. Here are some reactions.