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Sententious Full Sen Ten Shus Adjective Pithy Expressions Pompous Moralizing

Sententious is an adjective meaning full of pithy expressions or characterized by pompous moralizing.

Sententious es un adjetivo que significa lleno de expresiones concisas y significativas, o lleno de moralización pomposa.

Front sententious \sen-TEN-shus\
Back adjective
1. Full of pithy expressions.
2. Full of pompous moralizing.

[From Middle English, from Latin sententiosus (full of meaning), from sententia (opinion), from sentire (to feel or to have an opinion). Some other words derived from the same root are: sense, sentence, sentiment, sentinel, assent, consent, dissent, resent.]

"I enjoyed every glowing frame of the leisurely trip, which is punctuated by sententious epigrams. ('Lies are dreams caught red-handed,' or 'Marriage is the perfect murder of love.')" - Joe Morgenstern; Film Review; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Aug 1, 2003.

"But 'The Reckoning,' like a great many medieval melodramas before it, a talky, sententious affair." - A.O. Scott; Seeking Human Truths Through the Stage; The New York Times; Mar 5, 2004.

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