succinctly
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[edit]succinctly (comparative more succinctly, superlative most succinctly)
- In a succinct manner, concisely.
- Antonym: unsuccinctly
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XLIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- With this preface, Sam related, as succinctly as he could, the last memorable conversation he had had with Mr. Pickwick.
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter IV, in A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., […], published 1892, →OCLC:
- My companion smiled approvingly. “You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well,” he said.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- ["]Who is he?" "He is Tom," replied Ajor succinctly.