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Definition of: sententious
(sen·ten′shəs) adjective
1. Abounding in or giving terse expression to thought; axiomatic; sometimes, opprobriously, pompously formal, or moralizing.
2. Habitually using terse, laconic, or aphoristic language. See synonyms under TERSE. [<L sententiosus <sententia a maxim. See SENTENCE.]
—sen·ten′tious·ly adverb
—sen·ten′tious·ness, sen·ten·ti·os·i·ty (sen·ten′shē·os′ə·tē) noun
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