"sententious" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Sententious is an adjective that is used to describe someone or something that expresses moralizing or preachy opinions or advice. Example: He is known for his sententious soundbites about the importance of getting a good education.
Yet, although he praised the self-respect and stability that Russia had regained under Mr Putin, he remained deeply critical of its politics and the corruption and greed that capitalism had exposed and fuelled.That message, often delivered in sententious, near messianic tones, had little appeal.
For their fans the question in both cases was the same can the boys do it without Gazza, and can the girls cope without Geri?The press, which loves nothing better than a bout of sententious moralising and celebrity-baiting, is treating both stories in much the same way.
Oxford may be the city of lost causes, and this book is indeed ambitious; it could easily sound sententious or twee.
Trumped-up charges of treason and sententious show-trials were weapons he had used against numberless "heretics".
In mood, matter, and form (that of the englyn) it often overlapped with gnomic poetry, which consisted of sententious sayings about man and nature.
His later églogas introduce other types of characters and, although still rudimentary in plot, are more complex, refined, and sententious.
The sententious choirboy dramas presented at court throughout the second half of the 16th century were acted and sung by two companies, the Children of Paul's and the Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal.
The Sinngedicht, or sententious epigram, engaged German taste in the 18th and early 19th centuries, culminating in J.W. von Goethe's Zahme Xenien (1820; "Gentle Epigrams").
All the Dr. Syntax books satirize the many 18th- and early 19th-century writers whose "Tours," "Travels," and "Journeys" were vehicles for sententious moralizing, uninspired raptures, and sentimental accounts of amorous adventures.
RIO FERDINAND Footballer Prolific tweeter who combines banter with the likes of Robbie Savage with more sententious pronouncements which some suspect may be tweeted with half an eye on a post-football career as a TV pundit.
He became the much-needed soul of the Sixties folk boom, bringing the open emotionality of gospel to a scene predominantly given to sententious moralising and po-faced traditional purism.
