sententious

UK
/sɛnˈtɛnʃəs/
US
/sɛnˈtɛnʃəs/

Übersetzungen

sententiousadjektiv
more sententious
Komp.
most sententious
Super.
UK
/sɛnˈtɛnʃəs/
US
/sɛnˈtɛnʃəs/
His sententious remarks made the meeting unbearable.
Его напыщенные замечания сделали встречу невыносимой.
The book was filled with sententious advice.
Книга была полна морализаторских советов.

Definitionen

sententiousadjektiv
Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.
The professor's sententious lecture on ethics left the students feeling more lectured than enlightened.
Expressed in a concise and pithy way; terse and full of meaning.
Her sententious comment summed up the whole meeting in a single sentence.