sententiously

adv

1. In a sententious manner, concisely, pithily.

   “"We shall see to-morrow," said the doctor. "We shall," replied Lady Anne, very sententiously.”

   “"It 's an ill wind dat blows nowhar, — dat ar a fact," said Sam, sententiously, giving an additional hoist to his pantaloons, and adroitly substituting a long nail in place of a missing suspender-button, with which effort of mechanical genius he seemed highly delighted.”

   “He became very cool and collected all at once. ‘I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,’ he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, and we rose.”