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sententious

[sen-ten-shuhs] / sɛnˈtɛn ʃəs /
ADJECTIVE
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On the other hand, the sententious segues and gassed-up encomiums to whatever B-list star was arriving onstage were eliminated.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023

Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his sententious prose strains to upstage it.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2018

This is the foggy lens through which our most sententious pundits are—week after week—doggedly committed to viewing the state of American society.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2018

Bening’s performance is a different story altogether—she virtually makes the movie, sending even simple lines from its often sententious script deftly spinning and leaping in surprising flourishes.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017

She is brief, terse, sententious; her mind being evidently bent on things rather than on words.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.




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