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Meanings of sententious in English
Usage of sententious in English
1
Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
2
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
3
Perry dispatched to Washington the sententious message: We have met the enemy.
4
At times he is sententious, energetic, simple; then again, obscure and diffuse.
5
Samuel Bowers had removed his cigar to let fall a sententious observation.
6
He is generally so sententious-fondof aphorisms, and a very deliberate character.
7
He leaned back, cheerful and sententious, delivering his axioms with conscious kindliness.
8
You mustn't believe mamma when she pretends to be grand and sententious.
9
Then, thinking that a sententious answer would be the most fitting,-Mafoi!
10
Going down the aisle, Saunders M'Tavish voiced the general alarm in sententious tones-
11
Presently he gave forth the result of his reflections in a sententious tone.
12
The wretches do not scruple to avow this, in their own sententious manner.
13
Bunce would put in dry, sententious words of wit and wisdom.
14
They were uniformly forcible, sententious and argumentative; always dignified, frequently impassioned and powerful.
15
Upon this Virubov had remarked with a sigh, and in sluggish, sententious tones:
16
Ganimard took his time, reflected and retorted, in a sententious tone:
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