What is the meaning of sententious?

adjective

  • Abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing. "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation- Kathleen Barnes
  • Concise and full of meaning."welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams- Hervey Allen
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