Sample Sentences for
succinct
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    The lawyer's argument was succinct and persuasive.
    succinct = clear and concise
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    "Called 'em off on a snipe hunt," was the succinct answer.  (source)
    succinct = short and clear
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    "An admirably succinct and accurate summary, yes," said Dumbledore, bowing his head.  (source)
    succinct = clear in few words
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    "The Doors close in two minutes," Newt said, a statement so succinct and final it seemed to hang in the air like a burial shroud caught in a puff of wind.  (source)
    succinct = short and clear
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    "Blood," he said succinctly.  (source)
    succinctly = clearly without extra words
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    This is the tendency toward succinctness [Pg159] and clarity, at whatever sacrifice of grace.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "He's usually very direct and succinct," I told the interviewers.  (source)
    succinct = clear and concise
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    He did so, telling the story briefly and succinctly.  (source)
    succinctly = clearly with few words
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    That is to say, we incline toward a directness of statement which, at its greatest, lacks restraint and urbanity altogether, and toward a hospitality which often admits novelties for the mere sake of their novelty, and is quite uncritical of the difference between a genuine improvement in succinctness and clarity, and mere extravagant raciness.†  (source)
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    And in the days that followed, a man who had long prided himself on his ability to tell a story in the most succinct manner with an emphasis on the most salient points, by necessity became a master of the digression, the parenthetical remark, the footnote, eventually even learning to anticipate Sofia's relentless inquiries before she had the time to phrase them.  (source)
    succinct = clear and concise
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    Jaquemart's geography professor at ASU put it more succinctly: "There's nothing worthwhile there."  (source)
    succinctly = clearly with few words
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    She experiments, creating a text that is as succinct and flexible as poetry, snapping sentences into fragments so that the reader pauses, making each sentence serve her and not the other way round, abandoning quotation marks to streamline the typography and make the page as simple and readable as possible.  (source)
    succinct = using few words
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    Their physiognomy is hard to describe succinctly.†  (source)
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