apothegm
Example Sentences
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On Saturday, Broner apologized for his language, invoking an apothegm of his own invention.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2015
He was an apothegm slinger; he was unstoppable.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2012
The Philip Green approach, "done and dusted, back to the beach", is not their style, any more than his apothegm: "I want to make a profit, not be a prophet."
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2010
It does not help to reverse Beecher's apothegm and define a good newspaper as one that prints a miscellaneous, various amount of knowledge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lydia neither assented to nor dissented from this apothegm.
From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
