Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
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Examples for "short"
Examples for "short"
1National aspirations were encouraged, within limits; 'autonomy' fell far short of self-determination.
2International rights groups said the vote fell well short of democratic standards.
3What are the short and long term health effects of cannabis use?
4The investing process from there was fairly easy: long Japan, short France.
5The company needed to address short-term liquidity problems first, the source said.
1Getting up, 'I must go,' she said in her curt, abrupt way.
2A curt Nicholas Raskin does appear on camera briefly to answer questions.
3Sir Eustace spoke in the same curt tone; his mouth was merciless.
4In an instant there flashed back over the wires the curt reply:
5Johnny had offered to help, Hagen had given him a curt no.
1A brusque order from Ali Bey brought the work to a stop.
2The Daily Mail's response to a similar request was almost as brusque.
3Something she saw in them excused the brusque command of his tone.
4However, she didn't shy from mentioning that he could be brusque too.
5Julia recognised this and recognised also the kindness of the brusque suggestion.
1He was big, brusk, quibbling, insulting, dictatorial, painstaking, considerate and kind.
2A large, brusk, well-groomed, good-looking woman of fifty was Auntie.
3In the adjoining room, over the "blotter," snapped the brusk stereotyped nasal reply:
4He was just as brusk and as brief of speech as he had been before.
5Ina, being half a foreigner, thought this rather brusk.
6His brusk manner often gets him into trouble.
7His manner was brisk, brusk, striding over trifles.
8His manner was brusk and business-like again.
9He was distinctly another person from that tense, saturnine, defiant, brusk person who strode through the reception-hall.
10She spoke with almost brusk decision.
11But his voice was not brusk.
12The green dwarf was brusk.
13Roland had always imagined that editors in their private offices were less easily approached and, when approached, more brusk.
14The brusk reply was: Why, you old fool, that's the Cabinet that is a-settin', and them thar big feet are ole Abe's.
15There were no endearments or caresses, naturally, but her brusk nods of greeting and farewell seemed to have real good feeling behind them.
16It swept over Thorwaldsen, like a winter's wave, that this big, brusk, bizarre woman before him was Maria Louisa, the second wife of Napoleon.