Sententious Mnemonic
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sententious
sententious
/sɛnˈtɛn.ʃəs/
concise
pithy
aphoristic
Examples
- His style is grave and sententious.
- The answer might have been sententious.
- For me, that means overcoming my tendencies to be sententious and cranky.
- Richard Baxter calls him a sententious, elegant preacher.
- They often have a sententious tone and convey a feeling of intimate pain.
- Gnomic poetry consists of sententious maxims put into verse to aid the memory.
- These sententious works were written primarily for the son of King Philip IV.
- When I was a kid, we used to interpret its song, for it is quite sententious.
- The main raga alapana in Kalyani had a definite Semmangudi influence in its long sententious structure.
- Sentential with morphological effects.
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing- Kathleen Barnes
adjective
concise and full of meaning- Hervey Allen
adjective
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"Sent + Ten + Tents. Sent ten wise sayings from ten tents."
"Cent + Tent + Us. Giving us cents to feel important and preachy."
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