sententious
英 [senˈtenʃəs] 美 [sɛnˈtɛnʃəs]

adj.

说教的；卖弄文采的，咬文嚼字的；爱用格言[警句]的；

英英释义

sententious[ sen'tenʃəs ]

• adj.
  • abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing

    "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"

  • concise and full of meaning

    "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"

    同义词：pithy

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. The document was too sententious and pompous.
   这份文件过于说教式的，华而不实。

权威例句

Sententiousness in "Fuente Ovejuna"
Sententious Theory in Spenser's Legend of Friendship
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Tacitus the Sententious Historian: A Sociology of Rhetoric in "Annales"1-6
Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare : Wittgenstein Reading
Morality Ovidized: Sententiousness and the Aphoristic Moment in the Nun's Priest's Tale
Classification of proverbs and sententious saysings selected from the plays of Plautus and Terence ...
Horace, Seneca, and Martial: ‘Sententious Style’ across Genres: Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations