epigrammatically
- a word derived from epigram.
- 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
Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Albert Camus, with his Frenchman's taste for the epigrammatically provocative, once wrote: "A government, by definition, has no conscience."
From Time Magazine Archive
As the somewhat declass� 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
Each Great Man was shrewdly, often epigrammatically, summed up in Beatrice Webb's diary.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Meredith once said the same in Diana of the Crossways, although he said it more epigrammatically.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
