Sample Sentences for
sententious
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    She has grown a bit sententious in old age.
    sententious = tries to express wisdom with concise statements
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    'Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,' he said sententiously.  (source)
    sententiously = in an annoying attempt to sound smart
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    Algernon. Then your wife will. You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none. Jack. [Sententiously.] That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years.  (source)
    Sententiously = pompously moralizing
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    A parable of the soul, as his Latin teacher had pointed out so sententiously, Amina being a crude anagram for anima.†  (source)
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    Sententious sage!†  (source)
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    Mr. Ludsbury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick red momentarily and he assumed his customary sententiousness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "All men are physico-chemically equal," said Henry sententiously.†  (source)
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    VLADIMIR: (sententious).†  (source)
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    'There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly,' I said, sententiously.†  (source)
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    Sententious he might occasionally be, but never pompous, never preacherish in tone, and I relished both the letters' complexity of thought and feeling and their simple eloquence; whenever I finished one I was usually close to tears, or doubled over with laughter, and they almost always set me immediately to rereading passages in the Bible, from which my father had derived many of his prose cadences and much of his wisdom.†  (source)
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    Colonel Cathcart clucked sententiously, shocked by the suggestion.†  (source)
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    But he presently presented himself under worthier circumstances; for, the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance,—on account of the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice of his daughter's heart, by purposely falling upon the object, in a flour-sack, out of the first-floor window,—summoned a sententious Enchanter; and he, coming up from the antipodes rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.†  (source)
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    Well, she says we ought to because they have to live very dull, stupid lives compared with think-picture people,' Petra said, somewhat sententiously.†  (source)
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