epigrammatical

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Rhetorical and epigrammatical point and vigour are the special virtues of this system: its weaknesses are monotony of beat and lack of freedom and variety in sentence structure.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

There was a cynical old bachelor uncle, who gave the Girl epigrammatical advice about the virtue of frivolity and the danger of taking things seriously.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

Religious meditation does not harmonise with epigrammatical satire.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises.

From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by Todhunter, John

Unpleas- antly personal, perhaps, but written with an epigrammatical point that is very rare nowadays—very rare indeed.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir