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compendious

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David Frum on Allen Guelzo's compendious synthesis of new thinking about slavery and its aftermath.

A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.

To other persons they may serve as a compendious view of the most important discoveries relating to the subject.

It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters.

He sat down by his lamp and tried to read—to read a little compendious life of a great English statesman, out of a “series.”

But there is another way, more compendious still, of summing up his political chronicle.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compendious, such as: abbreviated, breviloquent, brief, close, compact, and compendiary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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