- 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
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
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 Albert Edwards
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
Religious meditation does not harmonise with epigrammatical satire.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
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