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Summary

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sententious:
- Wiktionary:
  sententious → concis, laconique, succint, sentencieux, pédant, pontifiant
- Synonyms for "sententious":
  pretentious
  pithy; concise

English

Detailed Translations for sententious from English to French

sententious:

Translation Matrix for sententious:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	pithy

Synonyms for "sententious":

Related Definitions for "sententious":

concise and full of meaning¹
- the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams¹
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing¹
- too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation¹

Wiktionary Translations for sententious:

sententious

adjective

using as few words as possible
- sententious → concis; laconique; succint
tending to use aphorisms or maxims
- sententious → sentencieux; pédant; pontifiant

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