sententious

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Adjective sententious has 2 senses

sententious - abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
Antonym: unpretentious (indirect, via pretentious)
pithy, sententious - concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
Antonym: prolix (indirect, via concise)

sentencing sentencse for inept sentenes sentensce for abatement sentense verb proposition sentent sentential sentential function sententious sententiously senter sentes senthil senti sentia sentience sentiency

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