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epigram
[ ep-i-gram ]
noun
- any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
Synonyms: , ,
- epigrammatic expression:
Oscar Wilde had a genius for epigram.
- a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.
epigram
/ 藞蓻辫瑟藢伞谤忙尘 /
noun
- a witty, often paradoxical remark, concisely expressed
- a short, pungent, and often satirical poem, esp one having a witty and ingenious ending
epigram
- Any pithy, witty saying or short poem. An aphorism can serve as an epigram, if it is brief.
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Derived Forms
- 藢别辫颈驳谤补尘藞尘补迟颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
- 藢别辫颈驳谤补尘藞尘补迟颈肠, adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of epigram1
Example Sentences
This whip-smart take on workplace racism and Black self-esteem signals its ambitions in an epigram attributed to Due: 鈥淏lack history is black horror.鈥
Among Burke's epigrams are such copybook maxims as "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
In this one, he basically stands around indulging a series of cosmic snit fits, laying waste to the digitally confected scenery and uttering tedious epigrams about time, recurrence and the apocalypse.
She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to 亚洲网紅露点sworth and nursery rhymes.
Among the manuscripts, personal notes and correspondence is the unfinished draft of the third book in the Parable series, 鈥淧arable of the Trickster,鈥 which begins with an epigram that has been attributed to Butler herself.
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