- a variation of epigrammatic.
epigrammatical
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He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter
I'm an epigrammatical Moses, Whose humorous tablets of stone Condemn affectations and poses— Excepting a few of my own.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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
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
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 Sidney Colvin
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