pithier; pithiest
Examples of pithy in a Sentence
… Gore's prowess had been blurred by his performance in the Quayle debate and by his four preceding years in the Senate, where the prevailing style is indirect and woolly-swathed in layers of "my distinguished colleague" and short on zingers and pithy remarks.
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James Fallows, Atlantic, July 2000
I read my poems in L.A., chatted up the literary set, waxed pithy and beleaguered at the book signings and wine and cheese receptions.
—Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking, 1997
He does not hold forth to his family or to his court of old men; he listens, … then delivers short, pithy edicts that are then followed.
—Guy Martin, Esquire, June 1997
Unlike a great many other science books, the pithy, lyrical text never bogs down in a mudflat of facts.
—Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting, December/January 1996
The critic gave the film a pithy review.
The book is filled with pithy sayings about love and loss.
a pithy little Mother's Day card
James Fallows, Atlantic, July 2000
I read my poems in L.A., chatted up the literary set, waxed pithy and beleaguered at the book signings and wine and cheese receptions.
—Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking, 1997
He does not hold forth to his family or to his court of old men; he listens, … then delivers short, pithy edicts that are then followed.
—Guy Martin, Esquire, June 1997
Unlike a great many other science books, the pithy, lyrical text never bogs down in a mudflat of facts.
—Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting, December/January 1996
The critic gave the film a pithy review.
The book is filled with pithy sayings about love and loss.
a pithy little Mother's Day card
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Our film features six experts, each a specialist with pithy perspectives on biomedical, legal, moral, environmental and other questions around kids' safety and well-being beyond Earth.
—Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Yet this is more than a pithy maxim, it’s grounded in science.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Now, Robbins instructs her followers to stop wasting time trying to control other people by repeating the pithy saying.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
The scams are so common that law-enforcement authorities have taken to calling them by a pithy name: Pig butchering, a rough translation of an expression widely used in China, where these scams have proliferated in recent years.
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Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Yet this is more than a pithy maxim, it’s grounded in science.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Now, Robbins instructs her followers to stop wasting time trying to control other people by repeating the pithy saying.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 Jan. 2025
The scams are so common that law-enforcement authorities have taken to calling them by a pithy name: Pig butchering, a rough translation of an expression widely used in China, where these scams have proliferated in recent years.
—David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Pithy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pithy. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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pithy
adjective
pithier; pithiest
1
: consisting of or filled with pith
2
: being short and to the point
a pithy saying
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