| 单词 | sententious |
| 释义 | sen·ten·tious 1. obsolete < your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious — Shakespeare > 2. a. < “contentment breeds happiness” … is a proposition with which you can hardly quarrel; sententious, sedate, obviously true — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention — Adrienne Koch > < to push home her ideas on social injustice by sententious precept — Leslie Rees > b. (1) < “young people often feel they're caged,” I said … with a feeling that I was being sententious — Edmund Wilson > < the sententious expression of the middle period of a life that came to late maturity — V.L.Parrington > < there is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious — B.N.Cardozo > (2) < they were verbose, sententious, circumlocutious, and grandiloquent — Harold Rosen & H.E.Kiene > < too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation — Kathleen Barnes > Synonyms: see expressive |
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