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sententious
adjective
(sen-ten-tious)
concise and full of meaning
Synonyms:
pithy
,
Examples:
The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams.
sententious
adjective
(sen-ten-tious)
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
Examples:
Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation.
Words Related to
sententious
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pithy
,
pretentious
,
concise
,
aphoristic
,
platitudinous
,
grandiloquent
,
glib
,
gnomic
,
epigrammatic
,
wordy
,
polemical
,
trite
,
pedantic
,
declamatory
,
prolix
,
eloquent
,
didactic
,
digressive
,
hackneyed
,
orotund
,
hortatory
,
pompous
,
moralistic
,
essayistic
,
homiletic
,
trenchant
,
schoolmasterly
,
eulogistic
,
ponderous
,
rebarbative
,
bathetic
,
fatuous
,
sanctimonious
,
blither
,
banal
,
nabokovian
,
ineloquent
,
vacuous
,
admonitory
,
overfamiliar
,
solipsistic
,
shavian
,
overdetermined
,
jesuitical
,
jejune
,
melodramatic
,
mawkish
,
substanceless
,
schoolmarmish
,
teacherly
,
obtuse
,
hyperbolic
,
unpoetic
,
discursive
,
disobliging
,
swiftian
,
denunciatory
,
portentous
,
erudite
,
jamesian
,
pantomimic
,
tendentious
,
unamusing
,
longwinded
,
mealymouthed
,
unrevealing
,
lachrymose
,
whiggish
,
abstruse
,
contentless
,
droll
,
delphic
,
recriminatory
,
parodic
,
addlepated
,
recondite
,
onanistic
,
unheroic
,
dostoevskian
,
panglossian
,
unaffecting
,
tricksy
,
overwrought
,
histrionic
,
unenlightening
,
jingoistic
,
ahistorical
,
hagiographic
,
lugubrious
,
latterday
,
florid
,
sophoclean
,
sesquipedalian
,
maudlin
,
soporific
,
deconstructionist
,
puerile
,
affectless
,
reductive
,
irenic
,
sententious
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