pithy
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"Just so devastatingly crap" was the pithy and rather brutal view of one Labour MP in touch with me.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
They would funnel information and boil down data to pithy takeaways for their superiors.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
During her club gigs, Ms. Smith introduced a sharper, original approach to rock that was raw and pithy, salted with hidden references to 1960s girl groups, R&B balladeers and garage-rock bands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
There’s no pressure to make pithy and profound comments.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 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
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