Friday, September 26, 2008

SENTENTIOUS

aphoristic or moralistic

epigramatic

tending to moralize excessively

abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
"too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"

concise and full of meaning
SYN - pithy
ANT - unpretentious
"The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams."

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