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sententiousadjective marked by or given to preaching moral valuesa sententious crank who has written countless letters to the editor about the decline in family values didactic, homiletic(or homiletical), moralistic, moralizing, preachy, sermonic dogmatic(also dogmatical), prescriptiveadmonishing, admonitory, cautionaryadvisory, enlightening, instructiveholier-than-thou, self-righteous marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaningmemoirs that are filled with sententious observations on love, marriage, and happiness aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical(or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail abrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), short, snippety, snippyabbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortenedmeaty, substantialmeaningful, significantwell-turned circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousenlarged, expanded, supplementedembellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated in 1509 |