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