Sentence example with the word 'pithy'

pithy

abbreviated, brusque, connotative, doughy, flabby, indicative, meaningful, proverbial, referential, spongy, symbolic

Definition adj. concise and full of meaning

Last update: August 22, 2015


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The pithy comment is always admired.   [adjective]

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Thorpe captures the whole essence of our inimitable scenery in short pithy phrases of almost poetic quality.   [adjective]

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I expected to be making a few pithy comments about some minor adjustments.   [adjective]

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Uncas pressed closer to his side, and regarded the speaker with a look of commendation, while his father expressed his satisfaction by the ordinary pithy exclamation of approbation.   [adjective]

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When his brief story was ended, the father of the sick woman stepped forth, and, in a few pithy expression, related, in his turn, what he knew.   [adjective]

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Captain Tugwell, in his pithy style, was wont to divide all human life into two distinctive tenses--the long-pipe time and the short-pipe time.   [adjective]

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This pithy motto he delivered, shaking his head, and giving each guttural the true Anglo-Saxon enunciation, which is now forgotten in the southern parts of this realm.   [adjective]

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'Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder,'--with many other pithy sentiments of the like nature.   [adjective]

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Most of those who knew him agreed in the pithy observation of Ensign Maccombich, that there 'was mair tint (lost) at Sheriff-Muir.'   [adjective]

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And sometimes, in requital, the HOFF-NARR, with a pithy jest, wound up the conclusion of the orator's tedious harangue.   [adjective]

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It is said that his widely and faithfully read maxims made Philadelphia and Pennsylvania wealthy, while Poor Richard's pithy sayings, translated into many languages, have had a world-wide influence.   [adjective]

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