Sententious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENTENTIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• given to or abounding in aphoristic expression or excessive moralizing
• given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner
• Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
• Comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
• abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
• concise and full of meaning
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• given to or abounding in aphoristic expression; given to or abounding in excessive moralizing

Words related to SENTENTIOUS

sententiously16 sententiousness15

Words that contain SENTENTIOUS

sententiously16 sententiousness15 sententiousnesses17

How to use SENTENTIOUS in a sentence

• Sententious in her didactic passages, she is pure and noble in her sentiment, poetical and impressive in her descriptions of nature.
• Oh, with what regret now did he think of the good advice which the captain had given him on board the Goldfinder, and of the sententious, timid wisdom of Mrs.
• Why, you must agree with me in all this, so I shall not be sententious any longer.
• Then she leant back in the cab and a low, sententious laugh lazily parted her lips.
• The words of Jesus are there, more deliberate, more sententious.
• At the same time he is not ignorant of the arts of rhetoric, and especially in the speeches he is fond of introducing sounding phrases and sententious statements.
• Their language in common speaking is proverbial and sententious.
• Unlike the Adams family generally, he had a rough wit and a sententious practical wisdom about common things not unlike the kindred conspicuous qualities in Dr.
• I have heard closer speech, more sententious, more convincing and in more direct and forcible language in town meeting than from any other forum.
• I reflected on the conversations I heard among the students, and the pithy, sententious sayings of the Professor at the table.
• Though full of a simple and somewhat sententious morality, he is querulous, irritable, ignorant.
• Neither influenced English affairs, and their eloquence curiously was considered cold and sententious.
• The French, as you know, are remarkable for their fondness for sententious phrases, in which much meaning is condensed into a small space.
• MacGregor said something sententious, and Glenn laughed, Nancy laughed with him.
• The immortal twenty-line address at Gettysburg is the high water mark of sententious eloquence.
• Now, kitchen-bound, he was no doubt using logic to create a sententious wallowing where the act was more hallowed in the past.
• The speeches abounded in short sententious utterances, in proverbs, poetic allusions and metaphors borrowed from legends.
• Then it was that the affected sententious brevity came into vogue.
• The sententious speaker is, of course, full and concise.
• That a woman should demonstrate to a man in fine sententious language the expediency of marrying her, is not inconsistent with good sense, but it is displeasing.
• This curious circumstance set me reflecting, and, as we trundled along towards Charing Cross, my mind gave birth to sundry sententious reflections.
• But there is a truth pertaining to the change of which the sententious people are not, I think, aware.
• These sententious people, with all their information, have probably never gone through the process of which they speak.
• A sententious black servant in maroon livery and a bright worsted waistcoat announced dinner from the foot of the terrace, and they moved slowly toward the house.
• Witty and humorous, sententious and didactic, solemn and pathetic, he not only pleases the fancy, but touches the heart.
• One could say the poetical or sententious without being insulted by a stare.

Similar words containing SENTENTIOU without suffix s

sententiously16 sententiousness15 sententiousnesses17

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