sententiously

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• sententiously — sententious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner. DERIVATIVES sententiously adverb sententiousness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «full of meaning or wisdom»: from Latin sententia opinion …   English terms dictionary

• Sententiously — Sententious Sen*ten tious, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.] 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sententiously — adverb see sententious …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sententiously — See sententious. * * * …   Universalium

• sententiously — adverb In a sententious manner, concisely, pithily …   Wiktionary

• sententiously — adv. sanctimoniously, self righteously …   English contemporary dictionary

• sententiously — ad. Expressively, pithily, tersely, concisely …   New dictionary of synonyms

• sententiously — sen·ten·tious·ly …   English syllables

• sententiously — adverb in a pithy sententious manner she expressed herself pithily • Syn: ↑pithily • Derived from adjective: ↑sententious, ↑pithy (for: ↑pithily) …   Useful english dictionary

• sententious — sententiously, adv. sententiousness, sententiosity /sen ten shee os i tee/, n. /sen ten sheuhs/, adj. 1. abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book. 2. given to excessive moralizing; self righteous. 3. given to or using pithy… …   Universalium

• pithily — adverb in a pithy sententious manner she expressed herself pithily • Syn: ↑sententiously • Derived from adjective: ↑sententious (for: ↑sententiously), ↑pithy …   Useful english dictionary