Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a pithy manner; with close application or concentrated force; forcibly; cogently.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a pithy manner.

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  • adverb In a pithy manner, concisely and to the point.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a pithy sententious manner

Etymologies

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pithy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The name pithily sums it up: the organization will work to make politicians accountable to their constituents rather than the corporate interests so firmly entrenched in Washington.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Here, rather more pithily, is an extract from the introduction to that same Hamas charter: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). "

    Negotiating for peace with Hamas Not a sheep 2009

  • In a phrase that pithily captured the problems of her relationship with Prince Charles she said: ‘There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.’

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • In a phrase that pithily captured the problems of her relationship with Prince Charles she said: ‘There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.’

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • Mr. Thiel delivers his views with an extraordinary, almost physical effort to put his thoughts in order and phrase them pithily.

    Technology = Salvation Holman W. Jenkins Jr. 2010

  • My wife pithily suggested that I might try to do the same!

    Frustrating artist « Write Anything 2010

  • Lyndon B. Johnson put it quite pithily to the leader of the Greek opposition, ‘F*ck your constitution.’

    Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010

  • Percy's remark has long resonated with me because he so pithily nails an essential issue: reality is too big, mysterious, strange, and surprising for a merely materialistic explanation.

    Science 2009

  • Lyndon B. Johnson put it quite pithily to the leader of the Greek opposition, ‘F*ck your constitution.’

    Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010

  • As the late Samuel Johnson put it quite pithily, how strange that we should hear such loud cries for liberty coming from the drivers of black men.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

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