Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
Abruptly or brusquely short.
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.
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