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adjective
given to smug and arrogant moralizing; given to uttering aphorism
1849The Sea Lions'Ay, ay,' answered Roswell Gardiner, in the sententious manner of a seaman.1888ShenandoahThen came Tom Robertson with his so-called 'tea-cup and saucer' school, which consisted of sententious dialogue, simple situations, conventional characterizations, and threads of plots, until Pinero and Jones put a stop to the Robertson fad.1926Lud in the Mist...some personal touch of the old scribe's, such as a sententious or facetious insertion of his own…Labels: Bronson Howard, Hope Mirrlees, James Fenimore Cooper
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