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Definition

concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

Ken Kesey provided one of her favorite pithy quotes: "You can count the seeds in the apple, but you can't count the apples in the seed."

pithy = concise

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

"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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

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.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

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."
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

... at my typewriter writing pithy things I'll never have the guts to say out loud.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

pithy = concise and full of meaning

Solomon would have had a few pithy words for the occasion.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

More pleasant, pithy, and effectual
William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew

pithy = short (not taking as long)

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.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

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.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

pithily = concise, but full of meaning

Which he did, urging her on in pithy phrases.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning

pithy = concise (said in few words)

More pleasant, pithy, and effectual,
Shakespeare, William -- The Taming of the Shrew
They may be said, in few and pithy words, to have ill served a poor purpose.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- House Of Seven Gables
When Time asked him to speak about the Racing Commission, Smith was typically pithy.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
The consequence of all that ice was a wretched Thanksgiving of tiny tough birds, heavy pork cakes, and pithy sweet potatoes.
Toni Morrison -- Sula
She flashed her badge at security, gave him a pithy suggestion that he keep out of her face, then strode toward the ascent.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
They may be said, in few and pithy words, to have ill served a poor purpose.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
] [Footnote 52: Emerson's style is characterized by the frequent use of pithy epigrams like this.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
He opened his mouth, waiting for his brain to supply the customary pithy comeback.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

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