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sententious

 (adj): abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
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about 1 year ago brtom said:

But why can’t I be moral?—Let me try—
My heart thus pressing—fixed my face and eye—
With a sententious look, that nothing means,
(Faces are blocks in sentimental scenes)
Goldsmith, She Stoops, Prologue

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