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Quick definitions from WordNet (sententious)
▸ adjective: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing ("Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation- Kathleen Barnes")
▸ adjective: concise and full of meaning ("The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams- Hervey Allen")
▸ Also see sententiousness
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▸ adjective: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing ("Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation- Kathleen Barnes")
▸ adjective: concise and full of meaning ("The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams- Hervey Allen")
▸ Also see sententiousness
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to sententious
▸ Usage examples for sententious
▸ Popular nouns described by sententious
▸ Words that often appear near sententious
▸ Rhymes of sententious
▸ Invented words related to sententious