| 单词 | sententious |
| 释义 | sententious (once / 3968 pages) adj If you speak in sententious phrases, your listeners are probably falling asleep, as your speech is pompous and pretentious, and full of moralistic babble. When sententious first appeared in English — back in the late Middle Ages — it meant "full of wisdom," but now it usually has a negative sense, meaning heavy handed and self-important. The sententious blowhard makes people laugh, and you can probably think of at least three cartoon characters who fit the bill — often a politician or minister who drones on and on, oblivious to the fact that his audience is snickering or trying to sneak out. WORD FAMILYsententious: sententiously USAGE EXAMPLESSimilarly, Ross’s scattershot vigor gives way to Lawrence’s grandiose, sententious bombast. The New Yorker(Nov 25, 2014) “Do you mind if I’m sententious for a second?” he says to an interviewer. New York Times(Nov 03, 2014) Trumped-up charges of treason and sententious show-trials were weapons he had used against numberless “heretics”. Economist(Sep 11, 2014) 1adj concise and full of meaning "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen Syn pithy concise expressing much in few words 2adj abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes Syn pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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