sententiously
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- sentenciously (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
sententious + -ly
Adverb[edit]
sententiously (comparative more sententiously, superlative most sententiously)
- In a sententious manner, concisely, pithily.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 155:
- "We shall see to-morrow," said the doctor. "We shall," replied Lady Anne, very sententiously.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
- He became very cool and collected all at once. ‘I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,’ he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, and we rose.
Translations[edit]
in a sententious manner
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