Sententiously is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENTENTIOUSLY in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• SENTENTIOUS, given to or abounding in aphoristic expression or excessive moralizing
• in a pithy sententious manner
ADJECTIVE:
• given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• given to or abounding in aphoristic expression; given to or abounding in excessive moralizing

Words related to SENTENTIOUSLY

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How to use SENTENTIOUSLY in a sentence

• The opinions of the judges were written down sententiously, as notes or memoranda, and not with all the developement which they probably used in delivering them.
• Grey very sententiously advised him at any rate not to go up to London.
• That dear morning is remembered, and the poor master who reproved me a little sententiously, is dead.
• I may not play truant from learning, Joseph answered sententiously, walking away, leaving his former playmates staring after him without a word in their mouths.
• The duke seems to mean, when he says he will speak like Brabantio, that he will speak sententiously.
• White sententiously lecturing Lady Macleod about the Renaissance, knowing that from time to time those beautiful, tender eyes would meet his.
• It is often said sententiously that the child is the father of the man.

Similar words containing SENTENTIOUS without suffix ly

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