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adj. - Terse and witty and like a maxim.

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  • Much given to apothegmatic instruction
  • As if to bring competing energies under control, Blue Blood 's abiding tone is almost compulsively apothegmatic.
  • No one, right or left, delivers the required apothegmatic commentary on the world with as much glee or effectiveness as Coulter.
  • The Moro seemed astonished, but appreciated the reason, and had his first lesson in the apothegmatic saying that all is not gold which glitters.
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