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Search phrase: sententious

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As You Like ItAYL V.iv.61By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.By my faith, he is very swift, and sententious
Love's Labour's LostLLL V.i.3dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasantdinner haue beene sharpe & sententious: pleasant
Romeo and JulietRJ II.iv.206the prettiest sententious of it, of you and rosemary, thatthe prettiest sententious of it, of you and Rosemary, that

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sententiousfull of wise remarks, ready with acute observations, pithy
sententiousmalapropism for ‘sentences’

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
SENTENCE [language]BASICsententious adj

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