Definitionadj. 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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