音标:[sen'tenʃәs] ;
a. 简洁的, 警句的, 富于格言的
s. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing

考试类型:[GRE]

sententious的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. The document was too sententious and pompous.这份文件过于说教式的,华而不实。

经典引文

  • A long sententious letter, full of Latin quotations.

    出自:C. Kingsley
  • As Harry said in sententious vernacular, 'I wasn't having any.'

    出自:Pall Mall Gazette
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as one ought
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bromvaleton
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capitalisme
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conditional offer
consumer need
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desensitisers
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exaugurating
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explicit address
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fine grit wheel
floatplanes
foot rot of cattle
gear-sticks
Geatish
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grandcamp
haliaeetus pelagicuss
have a line
heat soak-back temperature
histadruts
HPOT
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insurance pool
interlocking lead brick
isthmus
Jinia fly
Joffre, Joseph Jacques Cesaire
Kashub, Kashube
lick the ground
liquid grease
load demand signal
Louhans
low-variant
lutoid
main plot
mathematical demography
metallothioneine
milkweed tortoise beetle
musculus opponens hallucis
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nonimage area
nonsuit
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outmatched
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pars distilis
phaeophyscia endococcinea
pharmacoeconomic
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polypins
pork roasts
potassium red peroxochromate
precocenes
preliminary start
prepolymerized
proton capture
pyogenic infection of skin in infants
read-only memories
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science fiction film
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smalleys
spalder
spatial experience
spoor
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stone turf
sulphur-bearing waste water
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thiry seven per cent dose
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