Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or by aphorisms; briefly and pithily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
aphoristic manner. - adverb Using or regarding
aphorisms .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deb recalls it aphoristically: In order to take a job where I might have to change my name and accent and become a Western person, I first had to erase most traces of the West from my existing self.
The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb – review 2011
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He is explaining -- sometimes elliptically, aphoristically, through metaphors, jokes and old folk wisdom -- why "the economic crisis has barely begun," why indeed we seem to have entered the Age of the Black Swan.
Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The "Fragility" Crisis is Just Begun 2010
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And I suspect Yogi would be impressed for being considered in the same league, aphoristically speaking.
dustbury.com » Prediction is hard, especially about the future 2010
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He is explaining -- sometimes elliptically, aphoristically, through metaphors, jokes and old folk wisdom -- why "the economic crisis has barely begun," why indeed we seem to have entered the Age of the Black Swan.
Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The 'Fragility' Crisis Is Just Begun Christopher Lydon 2010
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He is explaining -- sometimes elliptically, aphoristically, through metaphors, jokes and old folk wisdom -- why "the economic crisis has barely begun," why indeed we seem to have entered the Age of the Black Swan.
Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The 'Fragility' Crisis Is Just Begun 2010
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Instead, I would just need to make some aphoristically cute atmospheric point.
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If she claims, with what sounds like commingled wonder and rage, "I have never been anywhere but sick," quickly she modifies her statement by adding, aphoristically:
The Parables of Flannery O'Connor Oates, Joyce Carol 2009
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Hi Raman, I had just reacted to your aforesaid sentence as I thought that saying something like this aphoristically should ideally be backed by sound arguments.
What they wanted us to do Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Hi Raman, I had just reacted to your aforesaid sentence as I thought that saying something like this aphoristically should ideally be backed by sound arguments.
Archive 2008-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
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