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adjective

pithy

concise and full of meaning

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pithy, each labelled with its topic.

  • His diary entries are pithy, a single line about the weather that somehow tells you the whole year.

    Literature

  • The board wanted a pithy summary, one page that a director could read between the lift and the meeting.

    Business

  • A pithy slogan beat a detailed manifesto again, and the losing side spent the whole winter arguing about why.

    Politics

  • Marcus Aurelius wrote in pithy fragments, and a single line about control still gets quoted two thousand years later.

    Philosophy

  • The coach's pithy halftime message was four words, move the ball, and the team scored on its next six possessions.

    Basketball

  • A pithy commit message tells the next engineer why the change was made, not just which lines were touched.

    Technology

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