epigrammatical

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There was a cynical old bachelor uncle, who gave the Girl epigrammatical advice about the virtue of frivolity and the danger of taking things seriously.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

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 Oxenford, John

Rhetorical and epigrammatical point and vigour are the special virtues of this system: its weaknesses are monotony of beat and lack of freedom and variety in sentence structure.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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 Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post