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
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
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
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
It has been epigrammatically said that, Superstition is, in many cases, the cloak that keeps a man's religion from dying of cold; possibly the same may be said of Spiritualism and Psychology.
From Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert by The Seybert Commission
