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[ adjective ] concise and full of meaning

Synonyms

sententious

Examples

"welcomed her pithy comments" "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

Used in print

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

A biting , pithy parable of the all pervading hollowness of modern life , the piece has been set by Mlle_Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over_and_over by four thousand French_horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul_Sartre .

Related terms

concise

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[ adverb ] in a pithy sententious manner

Synonyms

sententiously

Examples

"she expressed herself pithily"

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