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sententious
adjectives
abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
"too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
sententious
is similar to
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
"a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
pretentious
concise and full of meaning
"welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
pithy,
sententious
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