Sentence example with the word 'epigram'

epigram

abridgment, boutade, dictate, equivoque, jingle, palinode, prescript, roundel, song, turn of phrase

Definition n. a witty saying

Last update: July 13, 2015


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Tenali Rama was well known for his epigrams.   [noun]

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The moral aspect has been given by Mr Swinburne in an epigram: - " Alfred was a terrible flirt and George did not behave as a perfect gentleman."   [noun]

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Timocreon thereupon attacked him most bitterly (see Plutarch, Themistocles, 21); and Simonides, the friend of Themistocles, retorted in an epigram (Anth.   [noun]

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[This passage was suggested by the following epigram of Dionysius "Roses are blooming on thy cheek, with roses thy basket is laden, Which dost thou sell."   [noun]

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We are Macked)," he concluded, feeling that he had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated."   [noun]

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A wholly baseless anecdote, condensed into a stinging epigram by Endymion Porter, asserted that The Lover's Melancholy was stolen by Ford from Shakespeare's papers.   [Please select]

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He chuckled for hours afterwards as he thought of his epigram.   [Please select]

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"If it found its way into print it would ruin my reputation for epigram."   [Please select]

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Epigram may be defined as a "short sentence expressing truth under an amusing appearance of incongruity."   [Please select]

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I shall subjoin an epigram of his as a specimen of his poetry.   [Please select]

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Decidedly impressed with this epigram, Charles thought at once of "Notes on Women."   [Please select]

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