pithily
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7.6
- adverb
- /ˈpɪθɪli/
:
de manera concisa
- In his speech, he expressed the idea pithily, ensuring everyone understood the message without confusion.
Examples
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As Statesman writer Joe Gross said pithily on Twitter recently: "
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(Everyone remembers Roberts pithily writing that "the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.")
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To put this conclusion pithily: surely first, foremost, and always, the job of a judge is to judge.
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And so, as was pithily stated long ago by a very famous physicist, if you can spray them, they exist.
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Thank you for that tidy summation, well and pithily stated.
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Yet you are able to pithily dismiss all these dead human beings (at a ratio of about 150 Gazans to every 1 Israeli).
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Jill Neimark, author of the Psychology Today article, pithily remarked, "It's 1994 and the male body has arrived" (34).
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Rousseau pithily spelled out this virtue in Emile: It matters little to me whether my pupil is intended for the army, the church, or the law; he might have included the arts and academe: Life is the trade I would teach him.
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As to whether X should have the right to bring a double derivative suit for dissolution of LLC #2, in JG Club Holdings, LLC v. Jacaranda Holdings, LLC, Judge Kornreich held pithily to the contrary.
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Rubio pithily summed it all up at a Republican Party of Florida's breakfast meeting at the recently concluded RNC convention by telling those in attendance about Crist, "I told you so."
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Synonyms
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1.0
For a short time or in a few words
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7.8
To speak or write using very few words and often sounding short
In a short way that gives moral advice and sounds self-important
How Concise
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pithily comes from pith, which means the 'core' or 'most important part' of something, like the soft inner part of a plant. So to speak pithily is to give the 'core' idea quickly and strongly.