telegrammatic

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adjective Having the form of a telegram; especially, brief and concise, using clipped syntax.

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Headlines, forced to fit in those tiny spaces, are often as awkward and telegrammatic as print ones.

What Newspapers Can Learn From Craigslist Bill Wyman 2010
Headlines, forced to fit in those tiny spaces, are often as awkward and telegrammatic as print ones.

What Newspapers Can Learn From Craigslist Bill Wyman 2010
The instability of this world eventually registers as a feverish and telegrammatic numbness.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010
The word the is always a candidate for omission when a telegrammatic style is required, but then we expect all instances to go: All speakers please leave handouts on chairs.

Archive 2008-12-01 DC 2008
The word the is always a candidate for omission when a telegrammatic style is required, but then we expect all instances to go: All speakers please leave handouts on chairs.

On the, again DC 2008
My habit of listening intently to Uncle Nate's telegrammatic style of talk caused him to like me.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
The instability of this world eventually registers as a feverish and telegrammatic numbness.

PoetryFoundation.org 2010