Both Uses of
sententious
in
The Importance of Being Earnest
- Algernon. Then your wife will. You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.
Jack. [Sententiously.] That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years.
Act 1 *sententiously = pompously moralizing
- [Sententiously.†
Act 2
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