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- … 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. —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
Recent Examples of pithy from the Web
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Here are some pithy Bolton-isms that are clear-eyed and have the advantage of being right.
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Like other tabloids, its stories are pithy and celebrities omnipresent.
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Twitter feeds quickly filled with teary, wailing GIFs and heart emoticons cracked in two — pithy punctuation about anemic 401(k) accounts being whittled down to wisps.
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Before you pull the plug, there’s no reason to delete all of your pictures, pithy comments, and back and forth with friends.
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The pithy tweets from its Twitter account made highlight reels.
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But the celebrity chef's culinary contributions to New Orleans run far deeper than those pithy, made-for-TV exclamations might suggest.
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Guare’s pithy summation of his findings stuck … to Kevin Bacon.
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This season alone, Embiid has launched good-natured barbs towards LaVar Ball, Andre Drummond and Karl-Anthony Towns, deploying his trademark location tags, pithy captions, and withering comments to score points.
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Origin and Etymology of pithy
pithy Synonyms
Synonyms
brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, sententious, succinct, summary, terse, thumbnail;
Antonyms
circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy;
Related Words
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), short, snippety, snippy;
Synonym Discussion of pithy
concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious mean very brief in statement or expression. concise suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative.
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- a concise description
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- a terse reply
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- a succinct letter of resignation
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- an aloof and laconic stranger
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- a summary listing of the year's main events
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- a comedy sharpened by pithy one-liners
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- a compendious dictionary
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PITHY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pithy for English Language Learners
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: using few words in a clever and effective way
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: resembling or having a lot of pith
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