pithy

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But his homilies excoriating the regime and its backers among Haiti's small, predominantly mulatto elite, delivered from the pulpit of St. Jean Bosco in a sarcastic, pithy, and idiomatic Kreyol, and broadcast over the Catho-lic Church's Radio Soleil, galvanized popular resistance.

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  1. adjective Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief: a pithy comment.
  2. adjective Consisting of or resembling pith.

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  • The walls were enscribed with folk literature that was short, pithy, anything but ambiguous. —  The Dragon Never Sleeps
  • Especially the badinage his mother enjoyed with her father, or her pithy remarks to her brother, Jeran, and her sister, Cera, both of them Towered Primes. —  Damia's Children
  • But his homilies excoriating the regime and its backers among Haiti's small, predominantly mulatto elite, delivered from the pulpit of St. Jean Bosco in a sarcastic, pithy, and idiomatic Kreyol, and broadcast over the Catho-lic Church's Radio Soleil, galvanized popular resistance. —  Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide
  • (Keep it pithy, as I tell viewers who want to write my show. —  The O'Reilly Factor
  • The very first chorus with its mixed species of tempi 6/4-3/2 and 6/4-3/2 is fresh and pithy, and the whole work seems to me. excellent, pleasant and effective. —  Letters
 

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  1. Early modern English also pitthie, pyththy; from late Middle English pythy; from pith + -y.
 

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