pithy

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An excellent piece of English--pithy, forcible, and even elegant--will often shatter on some simple grammatical reef, such as the use of "as" for "that" ("he did not know as he could"), or of the plural for the singular ("a long ways off").

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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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  • Thomas Woods doesn't think so, which is why he wrote this fabulous, pithy, provocative, and supremely enlightening book. —  Mises Dailies
  • But we soon forget the pithy, knowing thing the garage mechanic said in the diner, and anyway we weren't there long enough in the continent to KNOW, to absorb. —  Michelle Malkin
  • I was hoping for a pithy way to wrap up this post but I'm really itchy. —  Bitch. Ph.D.
  • For her pithy exhibitions, which have made Rockhurst's gallery interesting and have drawn attention to the university, Pearce has curated works by local as well as national artists, often at the same time, to spark discussion. —  The Pitch | Complete Issue
  • It makes the Halo universe look like the pithy sci-fi pulp trash it is. —  Latest from PALGN
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sententious ·  concise ·  terse ·  epigrammatic ·  laconic ·  incisive ·  idiomatic ·  oracular ·  cryptic ·  satirical ·  aphoristic ·  trite

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

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