sententious in the PONS Dictionary

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They were usually sententious and often self-congratulatory.
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The book offers complex, mosaic characters and compelling storylines rather than racial stereotypes and sententious proselytising.
www.independent.co.uk
Perhaps he knows that ordinary men and women enjoy his plain speaking much more than sententious reporters.
www.radiotimes.com
Words can be stilted, as though mortals are mere mouthpieces for sententious statements, with the plot dancing along a bit disjointedly before sputtering out strangely in the end.
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He said so many wise things to us and uttered them in so pithy and sententious a style that one could never forget them.
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Then the sententious call for changes to the handball rule to make it easy to understand.
www.fourfourtwo.com.au
Anyone who's ever read any of the sententious tripe from management science could qualify for starting a class action in terms of content.
www.digitaljournal.com
They might be capable of seriousness on occasion, but they're not sententious.
www.independent.co.uk
But this time the scenario is firmly based in reality and the script isn't being sententious about it.
www.smh.com.au
The answer might have been sententious.
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