telegraphic
- a of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph
a telegraphic machine
telegraphic news reports - s having the style of a telegram with many short words left out
telegraphic economy of words
the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics
- Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books.
- President Coolidge stretched forth his arm to touch the golden lever of the presidential telegraphic instrument.
- He was a member of a nominating jury to weed out contenders for the $500 prize for international telegraphic reporting.