Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic observation, “In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience”.
Recent Examples on the WebMunro’s characters are drawn from the upper classes, and his prose is droll in the British way—wry and epigrammatic.The New Yorker, 28 June 2021 The writing, so heightened and epigrammatic, seems almost to mock the homespun fashions of traditional realist prose. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021 There were fantasy stories — Peter Pan, Five Children and It, Mary Poppins — and there were works like Robert McCloskey’s hilarious, epigrammatic Homer Price. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2021 The intellectual wit of Oscar Wilde—all that epigrammatic cleverness—does not require a mise-en-scène. Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2021 Grant unfolds her story in epigrammatic fashion, moving gracefully in time, drawing parallels between multiple generations.Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020 Even much of the material left out of those books is tart and epigrammatic. Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020 Modern life has rarely been articulated with such compression and epigrammatic precision. Dustin Illingworth, latimes.com, 31 May 2018 Each of her subjects fascinates in a different way, and Shapiro has a wizardly epigrammatic knack for summing up paradoxes. Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Late Latin epigrammaticus, from Latin epigrammat-, epigramma "inscription, epitaph, epigram" + -icus-ic entry 1