Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an epigrammatic manner or style; tersely and pointedly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner suggesting of an
epigram .
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Examples
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"Ethiopia is the country of the future," Birtukan Midekssa would often say epigrammatically.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopian Groundhog Year 2010 Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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"Ethiopia is the country of the future," Birtukan Midekssa would often say epigrammatically.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopian Groundhog Year 2010 Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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"Ethiopia is the country of the future," Birtukan Midekssa would often say epigrammatically.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: The Future of the Future Country, Part I 2010
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The Talmud suggests this idea epigrammatically: “Jerusalem was only destroyed because judgments were given strictly upon Biblical Law and did not go beyond the requirements of the law”.
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I suppose that the problem could be epigrammatically put in terms of the old joke: 'If we are put on earth to be good to other people, what are the other people put on earth for?'
Archbishop's lecture celebrating 60th Anniversary of the William Temple Foundation 2008
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I wasn't sure if he was speaking epigrammatically or flirtatiously.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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“It is, and it is not,” he answered, epigrammatically.
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‘I have had the honour, by a coincidence of which I am proud, to have made a remark, similar in effect, though not so epigrammatically expressed.’
Hard Times 2002
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Page 305, Volume 2 and in a letter of 1547 expressed epigrammatically:
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968
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George Bernard Shaw had some truth when he remarked epigrammatically that nobody knew whether Christianity would work because no generation had ever tried it.
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