sententious
英 [sen'ten??s]
美[s?n't?n??s]
- adj. 簡(jiǎn)潔精煉的；警句的，富于格言的
英英釋意
- 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