epigram
noun
any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
epigrammatically
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a word derived from
epigram.
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a word derived from
epigrammatic.
Example Sentences
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Although those epigrammatic sentences can be arresting—“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which a man knoweth least”—Montaigne doesn’t think epigrammatically.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
I spoke tersely, almost epigrammatically, but Briand has a good French brain and grasped the heart of the matter at once.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each Great Man was shrewdly, often epigrammatically, summed up in Beatrice Webb's diary.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the somewhat declassé Lady Marjorie, she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant, married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You'll look like a fool standing on his head in a snow-bank if you talk impudent to me," said Hefty, epigrammatically, from behind the barrier of his iron mask.
From Van Bibber and Others by Richard Harding Davis
