sentencioso

Portuguese

Adjective

sentencioso (feminine sentenciosa, masculine plural sentenciosos, feminine plural sentenciosas, metaphonic)

1. sententious (tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralising)

Derived terms

• sentenciosamente

Related terms

• sentença

Further reading

• “sentencioso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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Spanish

Adjective

sentencioso (feminine sentenciosa, masculine plural sentenciosos, feminine plural sentenciosas)

1. sententious
2. pithy

Further reading

• “sentencioso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014