In fact, he had an even more pithy summary of it "illegal".

Trucker John was even more pithy: I bet she had to ask for directions to Wigan.

The smaller growth is usually more pithy and lacking in vitality and gives poor results in grafting.

At any rate, we prefer the Scotch poet's description, as somewhat the more pithy, and graphic, and intelligible of the two.

All wise men are fatalists; and no proverb is more pithy than that which says, 'What can't be cured must be endured.'