Crossword-Solution: SENTENTIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sententious | a. | Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. |
| Sententious | a. | Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “SENTENTIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pithy; axiomatic. | 1 answer |
| Short and pithy. | 2 answers |
| gnomic | 5 answers |
| APHORISTIC | 5 answers |
| prognosticating | 18 answers |
| prophesying | 20 answers |
| soothsaying | 21 answers |
| augural | 42 answers |
| premonitory | 45 answers |
| vatic | 45 answers |
| predictive | 47 answers |
| peremptory | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SENTENTIOUS (5)
One of nature’s gentlemen!” This was a trifle sententious, and Rowland turned to the bust of Miss Light.
The woman stood near, waiting till we should seat ourselves at the table, and listening to it all with an amused air, which had something in it of the look with which one listens to the sententious remarks of a pompous child.
And you are older than I." "'After the busy day Comes the calm sleep of night,'" she quoted, with a sententious sigh.
There's many," he added with sententious indignation, "that knock a man down, and then run away without waiting to find out if they've hurted 'em or killed 'em." The speech for both Winthrop and Miss Forbes was equally embarrassing.
But why can’t I be moral?--Let me try-- My heart thus pressing--fixed my face and eye-- With a sententious look, that nothing means, (Faces are blocks in sentimental scenes) Thus I begin: “All is not gold that glitters, “Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.
Quotes with SENTENTIOUS (2)
I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.
It was fun to see him becoming sententious again, glorying in a science he had invented, and as positive as a village soothsayer.'So one should neither give nor receive?' I laughed. 'And if the lover is poor, his mistress indigent, then both she and he must tactfully let themselves and each other die?''Let them die,' he repeated. I had accompanied him as far as the revolving glass door of the lobby.'Let them die,' he said again. 'It's less dangerous. I can swear on my word of…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–1957).