sententiously

[ sen-ten-shuhs-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in the manner of a pithy saying or aphorism:
“A camel is the only wealth that carries itself,” observed Digby sententiously.
in a way that is self-righteous or excessively moralizing:
The novel is not sententiously written, but its lessons are clear and well taken.

He thought there would be a great fight between the combatants; his dad hadn't finished yet, he declared, sententiously.

Girls ant what they used to be in my day, sententiously remarked an elderly lady.

"Time hangs heavily when there is nothing to do," sententiously remarked Mataseis.

"People always gain by talking with a man like your Excellency," sententiously replied Mataseis.

"It's the first duty of a citizen to obey the laws of his country," he proclaimed sententiously.

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