epigrammatical

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His first serious publication was the History of Louis XI., which is dry and epigrammatical in style, but displays considerable powers of research and impartiality.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

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

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

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

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