How to Use pithy in a Sentence

pithy

adjective

• The critic gave the film a pithy review.
• The book is filled with pithy sayings about love and loss.
• What might sound like a pithy slogan is in fact the truth.
  — Charlotte Lytton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Knoxville sums up the new film’s ethos in one pithy and very true line.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
• This ale – made with lemon and orange zest – is not pithy at all on the palate.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
• Or at least the schmaltz found in the 27-year-old’s pithy chart-topping ballads?
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
• Not in the language of the internet, where the sharpest barb or the pithiest insult wins the day.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2019
• Thinly slice half of the lemon into rounds (discard the thick pithy end).
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2021
• Marks’s pithy analysis of how the world works looms large here.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• And this could be the rare occasion when the Tick can't glean a pithy moral from the adventure.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2019
• There are pithy little hints in the captions of the first slide, and the answers are on the second slide of each entry.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• In early August, Bernie Sanders came on for a pithy hour-long episode.
  — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2019
• Here are some pithy Bolton-isms that are clear-eyed and have the advantage of being right.
  — Cal Thomas, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• And come back with something pithy and witty about her.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• This is the same assistant who also speaks in tweets: short pithy sound-bites.
  — Liz Matthews, Town & Country, 21 May 2015
• Capsaicin is concentrated in the white pithy part of the pepper that holds the seeds and to a lesser extent, in the walls of the flesh.
  — Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit, 18 Oct. 2017
• The one that provided an all-too-pithy prelude to The Big One which spanned Christmas through spring.
  — refinery29.com, 16 June 2021
• Vaclav Smil put this point in his usual pithy way in the form of a commandment.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• Oh, and there’s also Dudley, who’s clearly good for a pithy quote.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 6 July 2019
• The wine is pithy and textured, with distinct tannins and a bitter edge on the finish.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2021
• Before you pull the plug, there’s no reason to delete all of your pictures, pithy comments, and back and forth with friends.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2018
• In the age of Black Lives Matter, the desire to carve out a crisp, pithy position is greater than ever.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• The pithy tweets from its Twitter account made highlight reels.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
• Cue this list of pithy anniversary caption ideas to help.
  — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 13 July 2022
• The great man deserves something far more pithy and trenchant.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
• Grapefruit, maybe some stone fruit notes, just a little pithy, with a creaminess on the finish in this hazy IPA.
  — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2022
• The virus’s temporary designation—2019-nCoV—is neither catchy nor pithy.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2020
• Stokes and Pearce often played twin rhythm guitars, and Pearce’s solos tended to be short and pithy.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
• The Clientele is a guitar-bass-drums trio known for its pretty, pithy chamber-pop songs.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• An online petition gathered 1,472 signatures (and pithy remarks) sent to the email boxes of park personnel and city council members.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024