sententious


sententious (http://definr.com/sententious)

     adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing;
            "too often the significant episode deteriorates into
            sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
     2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
        "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which
        Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: pithy]