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\ |
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| 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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