perspicuous
adjective
clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
perspicuously
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a word derived from
perspicuous.
Example Sentences
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This work did not take hold of public attention; the narrative is perspicuously and pleasingly written, but it throws no additional light upon the events of the time.
From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Miss Emma Roberts
He walked fast up the road, not perspicuously conscious that his motive was to be well in advance of Vernon Whitford: to whom, after all, the knowledge imparted by Crossjay would be of small advantage.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
I saw several reviews of it, and I was amused to find that the critics perspicuously conjectured that because it was written in the first person it was probably autobiographical.
From The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson
They should be simple, yet not trivial; efficient, yet not unnecessarily rigorous, and should be drawn up, if not perspicuously, at least intelligibly.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
The art wanted is one that will enable us to use language perspicuously in expressing our premises:' and he might have added—direct us in selecting proper materials of which to make premises.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
