Sample Sentences forpithy (editor-reviewed)
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I follow her pithy commentary on Twitter.pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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"Clarke, define resplendent." "I think it's shining, sir." "Pithy, Clarke, but adequate." (source)Pithy = concise (said in few words)
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If the typewriter keys were clattering away, she was at work on one of her novels, poems, plays, short stories, or her illustrated collection of pithy sayings—one was "Life is a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in"—which she'd titled "R. M. Walls's Philosophy of Life." (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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"You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her," said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. (source)
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Since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties. ... The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. (source)pithily = concise, but full of meaning
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... at my typewriter writing pithy things I'll never have the guts to say out loud. (source)pithy = concise and full of meaning
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Solomon would have had a few pithy words for the occasion. (source)pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning
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"Near here, and soon," I replied, echoing what Captain Ono had pithily said to me.† (source)
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My mother, whose kitchen is decorated with pithy signs that, loosely translated, all say, in one form or another, "The Cook Is Out," made supper every night. (source)
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For I am a plodding kind of fellow, Copperfield, and had learnt the way of doing such things pithily.† (source)
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Which he did, urging her on in pithy phrases. (source)
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Dr. Krokowski showed up, smiling pithily and showing his yellow teeth under his beard.† (source)
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Years, and those experiences which befall certain shrewder men subordinated life-long to the will of superiors, all this had developed in the Dansker the pithy guarded cynicism that was his leading characteristic. (source)
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Dr. Krokowski, however, stood up and strode over to Hans Castorp; tilting his head to one side and smiling so pithily that it revealed the yellow teeth under his beard, he placed one hand on the young man's shoulder and with the other offered a hearty handshake.† (source)
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Further complicating matters, the prelate was deaf in his left ear, partial to Latin epigrams, and prone to stare at décolletage whenever he drank a glass of wine; while the Duchess Obolensky, who was particularly caustic in summer, frowned upon pithy sayings and could not abide discussions of the arts.† (source)
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She flashed her badge at security, gave him a pithy suggestion that he keep out of her face, then strode toward the ascent.† (source)
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