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sententiousness
Variant of sententious
adjective
- expressing much in few words; short and pithy; pointed
- full of, or fond of using, maxims, proverbs, etc., esp. in a way that is ponderously trite and moralizing
Related Forms:
- sententiously adverb
- sententiousness noun
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