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Meanings of sententious in English

Concise and full of meaning.

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Examples for "pithy"
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Inman originally targeted FunnyJunk with a pithy blog post a year ago.
The Guardian
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Answer: no, it is not a pithy take on George Graham's Arsenal.
The Guardian
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To this I naturally replied that him; but his answer was pithy.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
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The walls of his room were covered with poetry and pithy sentences.
Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and A...
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The truth of these pithy adages was now about to be shown.
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
Usage of sententious in English
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Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
The Last of the Mohicans
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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Perry dispatched to Washington the sententious message: We have met the enemy.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 181...
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At times he is sententious, energetic, simple; then again, obscure and diffuse.
Hyperion
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Samuel Bowers had removed his cigar to let fall a sententious observation.
The Henchman
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He is generally so sententious-fondof aphorisms, and a very deliberate character.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
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He leaned back, cheerful and sententious, delivering his axioms with conscious kindliness.
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
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You mustn't believe mamma when she pretends to be grand and sententious.
The Claverings
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Then, thinking that a sententious answer would be the most fitting,-Mafoi!
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sie...
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Going down the aisle, Saunders M'Tavish voiced the general alarm in sententious tones-
St. Cuthbert's
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Presently he gave forth the result of his reflections in a sententious tone.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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The wretches do not scruple to avow this, in their own sententious manner.
Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony
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Bunce would put in dry, sententious words of wit and wisdom.
A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham / Papers Reprinted from t...
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They were uniformly forcible, sententious and argumentative; always dignified, frequently impassioned and powerful.
Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet / With a Histor...
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Upon this Virubov had remarked with a sigh, and in sluggish, sententious tones:
Through Russia
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Ganimard took his time, reflected and retorted, in a sententious tone:
The Blonde Lady / Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Ars...
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