pithy

Example Sentences

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A three-judge panel on Thursday rejected the request in a pithy unsigned order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“As goes January, so goes the year,” is a pithy version of the concept.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

"There's a touch too much auto-tune on her voice at times, but no doubting her ability to convey raw emotion with sharp, pithy pop."

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

Sam Cook’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” played as scores of attendees mingled and flashed pithy signs to cars speeding down Wilshire Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë