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[ UK /ˈɛpɪɡɹˌæm/ ]
[ US /ˈɛpəˌɡɹæm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a witty saying

How To Use epigram In A Sentence

  • The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
  • His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence.
  • Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
  • Perhaps there was truth in Croce's epigram that `all history is contemporary history". SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
  • Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
  • _ What you call epigram gives life and spirit to grave works, and seems principally wanted to relieve a long poem. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
  • The pieces were expertly crafted and shaped with epigrammatic concision (none longer than five minutes). Times, Sunday Times
  • Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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