Definition of sententious in English:

sententious

adjective sɛnˈtɛnʃəssɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəs

Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.
he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric
Example sentencesExamples
- It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious.
- Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive.
- Alex may be sententious and slack, but he's not unwise.
- His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings.
- The mortals were less convincing, hampered as they are with dialogue which is both pretentious and sententious, a lot of which I felt could have been usefully cut and so speeded up the action.
- Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will.
- He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians.
- In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.
- They are never glib, never sententious, but cliché is never far away either.
- It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious.
- Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable.
- The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.
- Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about ‘Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spirit’.
- At one end of the spectrum were the Latin commonplace books compiled by schoolboys, organized into ‘topics’ or ‘places’ under which sententious sayings were recorded.
- I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious.
- The inner pages were dominated by an editorial that, more often than not, took a partisan stand on a burning political question and was typically lengthy, verbose, and sententious, albeit sometimes jocular.
- A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.
- Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent.
- The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme.
- In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect?
Synonyms
moralistic, moralizing, sanctimonious, self-righteous, pietistic, pious, priggish, Pecksniffian, judgemental, canting
pompous, pontifical, self-important
Scottish unco guid
informal preachy, preachifying
British informal pi

Derivatives

sententiously

adverbsɛnˈtɛnʃəslisɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli

Faulks rather sententiously disclaims the practice of concluding a novel with a list of references ‘as though all art aspired to the condition of a student essay.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Norman Mailer, who crossed paths and swords with Miles at least once, wrote sententiously about trying to ‘capture the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.’
- They are political or philosophical, merrily inebriate or sententiously sober.

sententiousness

noun sɛnˈtɛnʃəsnəssɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəsnəs

What it lacks, perhaps, is that most vigilant sentry against sententiousness and cliché: a sense of humour.
Example sentencesExamples
- Cook refers, without sententiousness, to the ‘plan’ laid out for her.
- He supplies a grand moral sententiousness blessedly free from the messy squalor of life as it's lived here, I suppose.
- Exquisitely photographed without lapsing into sententiousness, precisely constructed but never stiff, Forest of Bliss captures the mystery and beauty of its subjects and their lives, without abstracting or sentimentalizing them.
- Such sententiousness was much to Elizabethan taste.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin sententiosus, from sententia 'opinion' (see sentence). The original sense was 'full of meaning or wisdom', later becoming depreciatory.

Rhymes

conscientious, contentious, licentious, pretentious, tendentious

Definition of sententious in US English:

sententious

adjectivesenˈten(t)SHəssɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəs

Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.
he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric
Example sentencesExamples
- The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.
- Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent.
- Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about ‘Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spirit’.
- They are never glib, never sententious, but cliché is never far away either.
- I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious.
- Alex may be sententious and slack, but he's not unwise.
- In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt.
- Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable.
- The mortals were less convincing, hampered as they are with dialogue which is both pretentious and sententious, a lot of which I felt could have been usefully cut and so speeded up the action.
- It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious.
- Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will.
- It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious.
- He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians.
- The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme.
- Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive.
- The inner pages were dominated by an editorial that, more often than not, took a partisan stand on a burning political question and was typically lengthy, verbose, and sententious, albeit sometimes jocular.
- In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect?
- At one end of the spectrum were the Latin commonplace books compiled by schoolboys, organized into ‘topics’ or ‘places’ under which sententious sayings were recorded.
- His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings.
- A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.
Synonyms
moralistic, moralizing, sanctimonious, self-righteous, pietistic, pious, priggish, pecksniffian, judgemental, canting

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin sententiosus, from sententia ‘opinion’ (see sentence). The original sense was ‘full of meaning or wisdom’, later becoming depreciatory.

单词	sententious
释义	Definition of sententious in English: sententious adjective sɛnˈtɛnʃəssɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəs Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner. he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric Example sentencesExamples It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious. Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive. Alex may be sententious and slack, but he's not unwise. His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings. The mortals were less convincing, hampered as they are with dialogue which is both pretentious and sententious, a lot of which I felt could have been usefully cut and so speeded up the action. Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will. He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians. In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt. They are never glib, never sententious, but cliché is never far away either. It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious. Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable. The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury. Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about ‘Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spirit’. At one end of the spectrum were the Latin commonplace books compiled by schoolboys, organized into ‘topics’ or ‘places’ under which sententious sayings were recorded. I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious. The inner pages were dominated by an editorial that, more often than not, took a partisan stand on a burning political question and was typically lengthy, verbose, and sententious, albeit sometimes jocular. A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed. Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent. The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme. In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect? Synonyms moralistic, moralizing, sanctimonious, self-righteous, pietistic, pious, priggish, Pecksniffian, judgemental, canting pompous, pontifical, self-important Scottish unco guid informal preachy, preachifying British informal pi Derivatives sententiously adverbsɛnˈtɛnʃəslisɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli Faulks rather sententiously disclaims the practice of concluding a novel with a list of references ‘as though all art aspired to the condition of a student essay.’ Example sentencesExamples Norman Mailer, who crossed paths and swords with Miles at least once, wrote sententiously about trying to ‘capture the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.’ They are political or philosophical, merrily inebriate or sententiously sober. sententiousness noun sɛnˈtɛnʃəsnəssɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəsnəs What it lacks, perhaps, is that most vigilant sentry against sententiousness and cliché: a sense of humour. Example sentencesExamples Cook refers, without sententiousness, to the ‘plan’ laid out for her. He supplies a grand moral sententiousness blessedly free from the messy squalor of life as it's lived here, I suppose. Exquisitely photographed without lapsing into sententiousness, precisely constructed but never stiff, Forest of Bliss captures the mystery and beauty of its subjects and their lives, without abstracting or sentimentalizing them. Such sententiousness was much to Elizabethan taste. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin sententiosus, from sententia 'opinion' (see sentence). The original sense was 'full of meaning or wisdom', later becoming depreciatory. Rhymes conscientious, contentious, licentious, pretentious, tendentious Definition of sententious in US English: sententious adjectivesenˈten(t)SHəssɛnˈtɛn(t)ʃəs Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner. he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric Example sentencesExamples The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury. Some are witty, some impressively moving, some sententious, but the lack of dramatic context normally prevents evaluation of serious or ironic intent. Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about ‘Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spirit’. They are never glib, never sententious, but cliché is never far away either. I suppose if a contemporary poet had written this, I might think it a bit sententious. Alex may be sententious and slack, but he's not unwise. In the next three seconds, somewhere in the world, an ingenuous pop star or maybe a dippy actress or a sententious comedian will harangue you about Third World debt. Too often work described as ‘edgy’ is really sententious and predictable. The mortals were less convincing, hampered as they are with dialogue which is both pretentious and sententious, a lot of which I felt could have been usefully cut and so speeded up the action. It's only when we disagree with his emphasis that we accuse him of being sententious. Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will. It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious. He did not, as some of his critics charged, mean this as a call for sententious moralising on the part of historians. The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme. Stuart and his wife arrive at the end to calm everything down, and the play becomes sententious and repetitive. The inner pages were dominated by an editorial that, more often than not, took a partisan stand on a burning political question and was typically lengthy, verbose, and sententious, albeit sometimes jocular. In particular, why quote the mostly sentimental and sententious lyrics with such solemn respect? At one end of the spectrum were the Latin commonplace books compiled by schoolboys, organized into ‘topics’ or ‘places’ under which sententious sayings were recorded. His summary of the year 1741 is characteristic of the rather sententious tenor of his musings. A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed. Synonyms moralistic, moralizing, sanctimonious, self-righteous, pietistic, pious, priggish, pecksniffian, judgemental, canting Origin Late Middle English: from Latin sententiosus, from sententia ‘opinion’ (see sentence). The original sense was ‘full of meaning or wisdom’, later becoming depreciatory.
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