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Too often, she answers a tough question with a sententious banality.sententious = trying (but failing) to be verbally impressive
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The program has outstanding cinematography and music with a little sententious narration.sententious = concise and full of meaning
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She hates his sententious manner of speaking.sententious = annoying attempt to sound smart or important
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She has grown a bit sententious in old age.sententious = tries to express wisdom with concise statements
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'Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,' he said sententiously. (source)sententiously = in an annoying attempt to sound smart
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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. (source)Sententiously = pompously moralizing
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Colonel Cathcart clucked sententiously, shocked by the suggestion.† (source)
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VLADIMIR: (sententious).† (source)
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Mr. Ludsbury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick red momentarily and he assumed his customary sententiousness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A parable of the soul, as his Latin teacher had pointed out so sententiously, Amina being a crude anagram for anima.† (source)
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He was like Christ", I remember his saying, in his emphatic sententious way, as he tried very laboriously to explain Nettleship's philosophy; he lent us the book; it was at Warboys that I remember him explaining Plato to me and Nessa and Marny Vaughan.† (source)
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Perhaps he felt that under the circumstances Naphta 'was temporarily in a superior position; perhaps it was this momentary supremacy of his foe that he had been attempting to counter with lively expressions of grief and mat now silenced him—and kept him silent when Leo Naphta exploited his fleeting advantage by declaring with caustic sententiousness: "The error of literary men is to believe that only the Spirit makes us respectable.† (source)
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"I'd say that's less an irony, Sophie, than the way of the world," I concluded a little sententiously but with seriousness, feeling the need to relieve my bladder.† (source)
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And with that exclamation, which, whether it had reference to a light puff of air just then coming over the calm sea, or subtler relation to the afterguardsman there is no telling, the old Merlin gave a twisting wrench with his black teeth at his plug of tobacco, vouchsafing no reply to Billy's impetuous question, tho' now repeated, for it was his wont to relapse into grim silence when interrogated in skeptical sort as to any of his sententious oracles, not always very clear ones, rather partaking of that obscurity which invests most Delphic deliverances from any quarter.† (source)
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Well, she says we ought to because they have to live very dull, stupid lives compared with think-picture people,' Petra said, somewhat sententiously.† (source)
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He fled to Gottlieb as to the wise and tender father, and begged to be saved from Success and Holabirds and A. DeWitt Tubbses and their hordes of address-making scientists, degree-hunting authors, pulpit orators, popular surgeons, valeted journalists, sentimental merchant princes, literary politicians, titled sportsmen, statesmenlike generals, interviewed senators, sententious bishops.† (source)
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