Crossword-Solution: PITHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pithy | superl. | Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit. |
| Pithy | superl. | Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PITHY (5)
Dimmesdale, as the great enemy of souls would have it, could recall no text of Scripture, nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.
Another branch of opinion recommends for bedtime reading short stories, volumes of pithy anecdote, swift and sparkling stuff that may keep one awake for a space, yet will advantage all the sweeter slumber in the end.
And yet while the curt, pithy speaker misses the point entirely, a wordy, prolegomenous babbler will often add three new offences in the process of excusing one.
Its curse in common use is an incredible left-handed wordiness; but in the hands of a man like Pratt it is succinct as Latin, compact of long rolling polysyllables and little and often pithy particles, and for beauty of sound a dream.
The rector’s letters, and those of his wife and mother-in-law, had all been tolerably short and pithy, written in a straight hand, with the lines very close together.
Quotes with PITHY (3)
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy “one word” Zen. When asked “What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?” he replied: “An appropriate statement.” On another occasion, he answered: “Cake.” I admired his directness.
Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our…
This wobbly worldhost to insects and lintand a thousand pithy waysto feel unserious each minute It brings abouta great softening of the mind, likethe clouded edges of sea glass (thisfilter you could download and apply) A poultice or an opiate, rigidly individual. Aloneand erasing sentences to splinters.(Poem No. 5)
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 64 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).