How to pronounce pithy
Listen to pithy in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“pithy” in real sentences
79 clips in the index · 5 American · 24 British · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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well so i can imagine some quite pointed pithy pithy remarks um at that dinner dinner
British Library · hear it here
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to hear from you is a pithy question a pithy observation a contribution to debate but
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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It’s a short, pithy, appalling opinion.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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start with those three please really pithy
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pithy. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.