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[ UK /pˈɪθi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪθi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. concise and full of meaning
    the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
    welcomed her pithy comments

How To Use pithy In A Sentence

  • Now, I'm supposed to be pithy in this column, full of cute and snide comments about my Midwestern family, how they don't get it, how they're getting old and crotchety.
  • He delivered a pithy address on old England sports.
  • In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster. Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
  • The pithy news digest is a must-read for America's movers and shakers
  • But the fruit's clusters of arils - or seeds surrounded by a juicy sac - are protected by sections of white, pithy membrane.
  • Americans of a certain age will recall Douglas MacArthur's pithy aphorism: ‘There is no substitute for victory.’
  • Maybe you'll be glad to see the end of my pithy exam summaries, who knows?
  • As syrup of borage (there is a famous syrup of borage highly commended by Laurentius to this purpose in his tract of melancholy), de pomis of king Sabor, now obsolete, of thyme and epithyme, hops, scolopendria, fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Now you can follow my adventures on and off the beach in short, pithy, bursts. Archive 2008-05-01
  • The narration is flooded with wonderfully pithy, insightful commentary.
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