Sententious - Definition

sententious

adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic
moralizing; "too often the significant episode
deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen
Barnes
2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
"the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don
Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: pithy,
sententious]

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