We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of curt in English
Synonyms
Examples for "crisp"
Examples for "crisp"
1
Colours look rich without being over saturated; text is crisp and clear.
2
A whine was in one voice; in the other was crisp command.
3
The system is remarkable for the crisp, clear picture that it projects.
4
Unfolded, they were vast and crisp and beautifully printed on quality paper.
5
Strong response to last week's fearless attack on the potato crisp people.
1
Thus far Meyer's terse instructions have been high-concept: Turn on the sex.
2
Napster issued a terse statement denying that its future is in jeopardy.
3
We just get very terse statements that the case has been solved.
4
There are different ways to write expressions, some more terse than others.
5
Perhaps because it was so terse; perhaps because it was so characteristic.
1
While Shadow is more laconic, Whittle's physical presence looms in every frame.
2
Then, elevating his eyebrows in mild impatience, he made the laconic announcement:
3
Her laconic speech places her at the bottom rung of the storytellers.
4
He leans back in his chair and continues in a laconic voice.
5
He signed this laconic order, which I instantly despatched to General Ferino.
Usage of curt in English
1
Getting up, 'I must go,' she said in her curt, abrupt way.
2
A curt Nicholas Raskin does appear on camera briefly to answer questions.
3
Sir Eustace spoke in the same curt tone; his mouth was merciless.
4
In an instant there flashed back over the wires the curt reply:
5
Johnny had offered to help, Hagen had given him a curt no.
6
The pet animal of a taoog is a curt penny in value.
7
Clarke sees them talking and calls Ben over with a curt: 'Harper.
8
The 33-year-old had a curt message for David Stern, the NBA commissioner.
9
He came in a few minutes; his manner was very curt, business-like.
10
Theodore Kullak is curt and pedagogic in his preface to the Preludes.
11
A curt nod from Shool, who was hardly able to stand himself.
12
In the curt alternative of this clean-jawed young officer was cold finality.
13
Bors gave curt orders to his subordinates in the work of record-destruction.
14
Inside were two letters, the first a curt message from her father.
15
The reply was delivered in a manner as curt as his own.
16
He was curt and to the point without being rude or insulting.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Curt through the time
Curt across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common