adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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elephantine bureaucracy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first glance it looks as though the structure might belong to the Social Security Administration or some other elephantine bureaucracy.
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He got out of his car with difficulty, one elephantine foot first, then the bulk of his enormous body.
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In the middle of this elephantine travail, there came a knock on the door.
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Over the period since 1945 as a whole, other beasts proved mammoths - of elephantine size but doomed to extinction.
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She was a silly girl, and far too easily impressed by Grunte's elephantine attentions.