In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.
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Lards
//lɑɹdz//
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Yet when he wants to make a figure, he now and then lards his discourse with a scrap of thread-bare Latin which he used to steal in his school-boy exercises.
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