Both Uses of
sententious
in
The Idiot
- Then once more, ten days later, after some passage of arms with one of her daughters, she had remarked sententiously.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- "It is the HEART which is the best teacher of refinement and dignity, not the dancing-master," said her mother, sententiously, and departed upstairs to her own room, not so much as glancing at Aglaya.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(sententious) annoying attempt to sound smart or important
or more rarely (and typically in classic literature):
expressing wisdom or knowledge concisely