See pithy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1873 April 25, “Obituary - Justus Liebig”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News:",
"text": "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.\"",
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"ref": "1876, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, “On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies”, in Shells from the Sands of Time:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:",
"text": "[…], a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur who throws open the pressurized doors to the Dreamward’s Bridge and galley and Vacuum Sewage System and personally takes me through, offering pithy and quotable answers to questions before I’ve even asked them.",
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"Concise and meaningful."
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"text": "1863, Theodore Winthrop, “The Heart of the Andes”, Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in Life in the Open Air and other papers,\nMust we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?"
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"text": "1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Manual of Gardening, Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April,\nParsnip.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy."
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"ref": "1911, “Mushroom”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:",
"text": "To summarize the characters of a true mushroom - it grows only in pastures; it is of small size, dry, and with unchangeable flesh; the cap has a frill; the gills are free from the stem, the spores brown-black or deep purple-black in colour, and the stem solid or slightly pithy.",
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"Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits."
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"text": "His bairns a’ before the flood / Had langer tack o’ fleſh and blood, / And on mair pithy ſhanks they ſtood / Than Noah’s line, / Wha ſtill hae been a feckleſs brood / Wi’ drinking wine.",
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"text": "Next, from the well-air’d ancient town of Crail, / Go out her craftsmen with tumultuous din, / Her wind-bleach’d fishers, garrulous and thin; / And some are flush’d with horns of pithy ale, […]",
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"ref": "1867 January 10, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “To Edwin Harrison”, in Cecil Y[elverton] Lang, editor, The Swinburne Letters, volume 3 (1875–1877), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, published 1960, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:",
"text": "Great freshwater lakes sweep away inland from the very verge of the sea, parted from them only by pebble-banks and ridge of shingle—a sea without rocks or cliff, but the worst in England for shipwrecks—all shoals as far as you can see—water thick and pithy with sand.",
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"Vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial."
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"(now rare and chiefly Scotland) Vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial."
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"sense": "brief and to the point",
"word": "terse"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "sǎdǎržatelen",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "съдържателен"
},
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"word": "výstižný"
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"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "jadrný"
},
{
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "trefný"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "pregnantní"
},
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "kernachtig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "beknopt"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "bondig"
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"code": "fi",
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"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "ytimekäs"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "bref"
},
{
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"word": "concis"
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "laconique"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "sommaire"
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{
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"word": "succinct"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "kernig"
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"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "knackig"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "markig"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "prägnant"
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "velős"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "sodŕžaen",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "содр́жаен"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"lang_code": "ota",
"roman": "veciz",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "وجیز"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "zwięzły"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "conciso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "sentencioso"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "lacónico"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "sucinto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "incisivo"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "concis"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "laconic"
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "succint"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "jómkij",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "ёмкий"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "sžatyj",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "сжатый"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "conciso"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "lacónico"
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{
"code": "es",
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"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "lapidario"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "incisivo"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "sucinto"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "kärnfull"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"sense": "concise and meaningful",
"word": "veciz"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "of, like, or abounding in pith",
"word": "mergachtig"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "of, like, or abounding in pith",
"word": "rijk aan merg"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "of, like, or abounding in pith",
"word": "moelleux"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"sense": "of, like, or abounding in pith",
"word": "kärnfull"
}
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