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单词 pithy
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pithypith‧y /ˈpɪθi/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Zehme wrote the pithy comments that accompany each picture.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose, hugely readable.
  • No plodding academic tome, this Virginia Woolf is, like its subject, smart, pithy, engaging.
  • Press releases must be pithy, and full of substance and strong, clear comment.
  • They may make use of the brevity of Latin tags, just as pithy as any adman's lingo.
  • Though not a natural speaker his pithy style, backed by his fame and renunciation, strengthened the Student Volunteer Missionary movement.
if something that is said or written is pithy, it is intelligent and strongly stated, without wasting any words OPP  long-winded:  Press releases must be short and pithy. a series of pithy quotationspithily adverb
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