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sententious adjective abridged, aphoristic, apothegmatic, blunt, commatic, compact, compressed, concise, condensed, direct, economical of words, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, expressive, full of meaning, laconic, meaningful, meaty, packed with meaning, pithy, pointed, precise, sententiosus, sparing of words, succinct, summarized, telegraphic, terse, to the point See also: axiomatic, brief, compact, incisive, laconic, pithy, proverbial, succinct How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It has to be said that this collection of 13 papers, all by American-trained scholars, has the predictable characteristics of academic publication: sententiousness, obsessive concern with minutiae of importance, the use of pretentious and/or possibly non-existent words, political correctness, terrible photos and amateur layouts. Branca notes her sententiousness here, expressed in the rhythm of the two final hendecasyllables; Decameron, 113, n. Had Golding wished, he could have easily produced a book that scored cheap points by broadly lampooning the sententiousness of the censors. |
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