pointed
adjective
having a point or points.
pointedness
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a word derived from
pointed.
Example Sentences
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But the pointedness of Bosworth’s latest comments struck a nerve.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Here, too, we find the irreverent pleasure in the telling, the attitude of moral justice, the pointedness of the voice.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 21, 2016
Few cars have the pointedness, the intentionality of a 911 at speed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2016
Schumer has always been fearless about calling out double standards, including her own, but this season of her show has a political pointedness that both reflects the moment and drives it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2015
He has sanity lucidity, pointedness, sometimes epigrammatic piquancy, of expression, dignity without pompousness or grandiloquence, feeling without hysteria.
From Haydn by John F. Runciman
