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[ adjective ] concise and full of meaning
Synonyms 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 |
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[ adverb ] in a pithy sententious manner
Synonyms Examples "she expressed herself pithily" |
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