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单词 sententiously
释义
sententioussen‧ten‧tious /senˈtenʃəs/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsententious
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin sententiosus ‘full of meaning’, from sententia; SENTENCE1
Examples
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  • It was quiet, reminiscent, a little sententious.
  • On its own this reads like a perfectly ordinary youthful Europeanized sententious romantic flourish.
  • Perhaps her last remark was a bit sententious?
telling people how they should behave – used to show disapproval:  sententious remarkssententiously adverb
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