Definition of Pointed

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Pointed

of Point

Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.

Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.

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Pointed Quotations

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Payne Stewart

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.
Kevin Garnett

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
David R. Brower

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Ehrenreich

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Steven Pinker

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
Steven Pinker

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
Meg Cabot

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
Christine McVie

Pointed Translations

pointed in Danish is spids
pointed in Dutch is spits, puntig
pointed in German is gezeigt, gespitzt, gespitzten
pointed in Spanish is puntiagudo
pointed in Swedish is spetsig, pekade

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