sententious
英 [sen'tenʃəs]
美[sɛn'tɛnʃəs]
- adj. 简洁精炼的；警句的，富于格言的
英英释意
- 1. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;
- "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
- 2. concise and full of meaning;
- "welcomed her pithy comments"
- "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen