Sentence example with the word 'sententious'

sententious

abbreviated, cautionary, crisp, euphuistic, formulaic, high-flying, lofty, overelaborate, pungent, shortened, terse

Definition adj. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing

Last update: September 27, 2015


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Ram has a sententious personality.   [adjective]

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An increase of sententious imperative clauses is also to be noted.   [adjective]

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In the next year followed the Considerations sur les richesses et le luxe, combating the opinions of Necker; and in 1788 the more valuable Considerations sur l'esprit et les mceurs, a book which abounds in sententious, but often excessively frank, sayings.   [adjective]

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Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.   [adjective]

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Conversing with others, he was grave and sententious, not without a cast of severity.   [adjective]

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His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese.   [adjective]

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In the haughty Roman idea, the sententious announcement was thought sufficient for the purpose--and it was.   [adjective]

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In the next year followed the Considerations sur les richesses et le luxe, combating the opinions of Necker; and in 1788 the more valuable Considerations sur l'esprit et les mceurs, a book which abounds in sententious, but often excessively frank, sayings.   [Please select]

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Crewe's true and sententious remark when he read this editorial.   [Please select]

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Lord Julian was sententious, as I gather that he often was.   [Please select]

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"Put not your trust in hotel clerks," was the sententious observation.   [Please select]

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