pithy
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Definitions & Usage
Concise and meaningful.
Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Mr. Lamb, on the contrary, being "native to the manner here," though he too has borrowed from previous sources, instead of availing himself of the most popular and admired, has groped out his way, and made his most successful researches among the more obscure and intricate, though certainly not the least pithy or pleasant of our writers.”
— 1825, William Hazlitt, “Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
“The following passage, which is exquisitely pithy and exquisitely modest, winds up the description:- "In this apparatus there is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness."”
— 1873 April 25, “Obituary - Justus Liebig”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News:
“IT was a pithy saying that of Lorenzo de' Medici, and true as pithy, that we are enjoined to forgive our enemies, but nowhere are we told that we should forgive our friends.”
— 1876, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, “On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies”, in Shells from the Sands of Time: