- a variation of epigrammatic.
epigrammatical
Example Sentences
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The seriousness and solemnity of tragedy necessarily reject all pointed or epigrammatical expressions, all remote conceits and opposition of ideas.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
The former became by degrees quite epigrammatical in his poems, terse in "Minna," laconic in "Emilia Galotti,"—it was not till afterwards that he returned to that serene /naiveté/ which becomes him so well in "Nathan."
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
I'm an epigrammatical Moses, Whose humorous tablets of stone Condemn affectations and poses— Excepting a few of my own.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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 Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter
