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pithily

[ UK /pˈɪθɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a pithy sententious manner
    she expressed herself pithily

How To Use pithily In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living".
  • `I've drunk enough of your tea to launch Noah's ark ," said Aysgarth pithily. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
  • As Judge Roberts pithily pointed out in the hearings, only one justice thought that both of the leading establishment clause cases delivered this last term were correctly decided.
  • Oxymoron is a rhetoric device that, by force of the surface contradiction of language forms, can express the ideas not only clearly and exactly but also more pithily, deeply and strongly.
  • Mr. Thiel delivers his views with an extraordinary, almost physical effort to put his thoughts in order and phrase them pithily. Technology = Salvation
  • 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
  • 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
  • Where, asked a journalist pithily, is the space where newspaper owners and managements can be held to account?
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