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Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
short
brusque
brusk
discourteous
Abruptly or brusquely short.
crisp
terse
laconic
concise
crisp
terse
laconic
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.
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.
curt
give a curt
very curt
come the curt
few curt
little curt