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English adjective: sententious

1. sententious abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing


SamplesToo often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation.


Similarpretentious


Antonymsunpretentious

2. sententious concise and full of meaning


SamplesWelcomed her pithy comments.
The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams.


Synonymspithy


Similarconcise


Antonymsprolix









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