pithier; pithiest
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Examples of pithy in a Sentence
… Gore's prowess had been blurred by his performance in the Quayle debate and by his four preceding years in the Senate, where the prevailing style is indirect and woolly-swathed in layers of "my distinguished colleague" and short on zingers and pithy remarks.
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James Fallows, Atlantic, July 2000
I read my poems in L.A., chatted up the literary set, waxed pithy and beleaguered at the book signings and wine and cheese receptions.
—Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking, 1997
He does not hold forth to his family or to his court of old men; he listens, … then delivers short, pithy edicts that are then followed.
—Guy Martin, Esquire, June 1997
Unlike a great many other science books, the pithy, lyrical text never bogs down in a mudflat of facts.
—Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting, December/January 1996
The critic gave the film a pithy review.
The book is filled with pithy sayings about love and loss.
a pithy little Mother's Day card
James Fallows, Atlantic, July 2000
I read my poems in L.A., chatted up the literary set, waxed pithy and beleaguered at the book signings and wine and cheese receptions.
—Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking, 1997
He does not hold forth to his family or to his court of old men; he listens, … then delivers short, pithy edicts that are then followed.
—Guy Martin, Esquire, June 1997
Unlike a great many other science books, the pithy, lyrical text never bogs down in a mudflat of facts.
—Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting, December/January 1996
The critic gave the film a pithy review.
The book is filled with pithy sayings about love and loss.
a pithy little Mother's Day card
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My request was straightforward; please explain, in one pithy paragraph, the reason for all this hope.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
The newsletter’s combination of pithy irreverence and countercultural credibility had proved popular and grew more so, accumulating nearly five hundred subjects.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
The guiding principle of a Letterboxd review is to seem as pithy and off-the-cuff as possible.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Tipping the scales Scalia wrote those pithy words about executive power at the end of his second term on the Supreme Court, in 1988, in a solo dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Morrison v. Olson.
—Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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George Caulkin, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
The newsletter’s combination of pithy irreverence and countercultural credibility had proved popular and grew more so, accumulating nearly five hundred subjects.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
The guiding principle of a Letterboxd review is to seem as pithy and off-the-cuff as possible.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Tipping the scales Scalia wrote those pithy words about executive power at the end of his second term on the Supreme Court, in 1988, in a solo dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Morrison v. Olson.
—Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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“Pithy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pithy. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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pithy
adjective
pithier; pithiest
1
: consisting of or filled with pith
2
: being short and to the point
a pithy saying
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