- a variation of epigrammatic.
epigrammatical
Example Sentences
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Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
The former became by degrees quite epigrammatical in his poems, terse in "Minna," laconic in "Emilia Galotti,"—it was not till afterwards that he returned to that serene /naiveté/ which becomes him so well in "Nathan."
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter
His first serious publication was the History of Louis XI., which is dry and epigrammatical in style, but displays considerable powers of research and impartiality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Unpleas- antly personal, perhaps, but written with an epigrammatical point that is very rare nowadays—very rare indeed.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
