Epigram is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EPIGRAM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a short, witty poem; a concise, clever and often paradoxical statement
• a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way
• a short poem, especially a satirical one, with a witty or ingenious ending.
• short witty remark or poem
• A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
• An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
• The style of the epigram.
• a witty saying
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a brief, witty remark

Words related to EPIGRAM

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Words that contain EPIGRAM

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How to use EPIGRAM in a sentence

• The divinity-student smiled, as if that was the concluding epigram of the sugar question.
• The readers of poetry still had a taste for didactic epigram varied by a certain amount of florid rhetoric.
• Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No.
• But they also contain many of those points of wit, and turns of epigram, which he condemned in his more advanced judgment.
• This epigram is illustrated by the following conversation, which passed between Bouvart and a French marquis, whom he had attended during a long and severe indisposition.
• The circumstance that the Prince of Wales was also Duke of Cornwall is referred to in the first epigram.
• She had it, and of so high a flavour that the more he thought of the epigram launched at her the more he grew displeased.
• He did not attempt to shine forth in debate by either a stinging retort or a witty epigram, or by a sudden burst of inspired eloquence.
• There, enthroned like a queen, she began, at first in a low voice, a conversation in which epigram evidently was not wanting.
• Frank received his guests with laughter and epigram.
• It was the age of pagan chivalry, and one might imperil his future with poor wit or a faulty epigram.
• She aspired to epigram, she set up for an authority in matters of taste.
• One of its notes was an artificial reticence of speech, which waited till it could plant the perfect epigram.
• Without the least sign of mental distress he had delivered himself of an epigram.
• Oscar Wilde was peculiarly given to epigram, and in his plays especially we may find epigram carried to the same excess that the balanced structure is carried by Macaulay.
• More moderate epigram may be found in Emerson and Carlyle.
• There is an Epigram of his printed in the same book and in many collections, Upon a Company of bad Dancers to good Music.
• There the strong interest in current politics took chiefly the form of satire, epigram, or entertaining narrative.
• The only Province therefore for this kind of Wit, is Epigram, or those little occasional Poems that in their own Nature are nothing else but a Tissue of Epigrams.
• The Reader may observe that the Beauty of this Epigram is different from that of any in the foregoing.
• He felt that he failed to give his reply the quality of epigram, but he was not unhappy in his failure.
• Grattan was fluent in epigram and most inspiring when condensed, and he had an immense moral advantage.
• Clearly, there could be no safety for a society in which the remark by the Chief Justice that murder was wrong was regarded as an original and dazzling epigram.
• Every sentence is an epigram with the point left out.
• Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church Who was looking up the text during sermon.
• Epigram On Miss Davies On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs.
• Epigram On A Country Laird, not quite so wise as Solomon.
• Hardly was the epigram out of her mouth when the door opened, and an emissary of Don Gusman announced to her that she must consider herself under arrest.
• Brevity and epigram must ever be soul of their wit, and they should be written as tales that are told.

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