epigram
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- n a witty saying
- John's famous epigram, 'Watch what we do, not what we say' came home to bite him when he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
- The more one sees this marvel of technology the more one is convinced of Arthur C. Clarke's epigram that 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
- His speech was laced with epigrams and that kept the audience riveted, engaged and amused.