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Adjective: sententious  sen'ten-shus
  1. Abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
    "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"
     
  2. Concise and full of meaning
    "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"
    - pithy

See also: concise, pretentious, sententiously

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