sententious

adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;

"too often the significant episode deteriorates into

sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes

2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";

"the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which

Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {pithy}]