a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context; as an adjective, means either given to aphoristic expression, or just referring to an aphoristic expression
sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)
his ideas were expressed in brief sententious phrases
the sentnious language of the worker who wants, as a Socialist, to 'learn something'
his father replying "From each according to his ability" or something similarly sententious and correct
the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak like the just
The sententious tracts of the Gilded Age had always been aimed at breadwinners and would-be financiers, which is to say, at men
forgot
the sententious authority of his flamboyantly individualistic style
I flipped through. Four hundred pages of hippie sententiousness.
Stefano now tried to amuse her, but being amusing had never been his strong point, sentimental tones suited him better, or the sententious phrases of the mature man who knows what he wants
Naipaul performs the sententious figure of caricature