succinctly

adv

succinctly

adv

/sʌkˈsɪŋ(k)t.li/ · /səˈsɪŋ(k)t.li/

Etymology From succinct + -ly.

1

In a succinct manner, concisely.

  • With this preface, Sam related, as succinctly as he could, the last memorable conversation he had had with Mr. Pickwick.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XLIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
  • My companion smiled approvingly. “You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well,” he said.1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter IV (What John Rance had to Tell), page 26:
1 more example
  • ["]Who is he?" "He is Tom," replied Ajor succinctly.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:

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