pointedness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From pointed + -ness.

The flow of boudoir Billingsgate in Lady Wishfort is unmatched for the vigour and pointedness of the tongue. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith
He was not a consecutive thinker, like Dryden, and cared less about the truth of his thought than about the pointedness of its expression. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
“There is, then, the second point cleared up, or nearly so,” said Eugénie, without the least confusion, and with that masculine pointedness which distinguished her gesture and her language; “and you appear satisfied with the explanation. — The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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