sententious

IPA: sɛntˈɛnʃʌs

Examples of "sententious" in Sentences

Chandak, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Seneca Falls Middle School, spelled "sententious",
Especially with Thoreau, snippets can feel sententious or bossy or crabby, and the Journal isn't.
I hate it when Tom Colicchio gets sententious, as he did facing the losing four contestants on last night's third episode of Top Chef D.C..
As i n a 2005 London production, he plays Robert, a sententious veteran trouper doing a season of rep with John (T.R. Knight), a promising young colleague.
But wherever in his Gospel S. Mark is doing the same thing, he is observed to adopt the style and manner which Dr. Davidson is pleased to call "sententious" and "abrupt."
Although Buddy did not know the word "sententious," the people he described were the embodiment of it -- licensed bores, as all aborigines seemed to be (so he implied), who had a proverb or a biblical passage for every reversal in life.
[253] And yet, if it were ever so "sententious," ever so "abrupt;" and if his "brief notices" were ever so "loosely linked together;" -- these, according to Dr. Davidson, would only be indications that S. Mark actually was their Author.