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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. in a pithy sententious manner;
- Example: "she expressed herself pithily"
[syn: pithily, sententiously]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.] 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. [1913 Webster] How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.] "Sententious marks." --Grew. [1913 Webster] -- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. -- Sen*ten"tious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sententiously adv 1: in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself pithily" [syn: pithily, sententiously]