curt
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Wall Street is still getting familiar with Warsh’s curt style and dislike of providing forward guidance.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Calocane was described at this review as "guarded, curt, fixed staring and having a hostile edge to him".
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
A few unnecessarily curt speech interruptions threatened the calm, but mainly, this was a smoothly run machine of a show, devoid of mishaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
When asked directly whether the administration has a social media problem during Tuesday’s press briefing, Leavitt’s answer was a curt “No.”
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
For a number of blocks the driver had repeatedly given those of us bunched up near the front door a curt order to “step to the rear of the vehicle.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
He stood up, and made another bow, much curter than his former one.
From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy
"See here, Mr. Jarnock," I said, perhaps rather curter than I should have done, considering what I had to say.
From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
"I have never had that thought, Boris Alexandrovitch," replied the other in a tone curter still.
From The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux
Frederick was younger than the other men too; but his manner was, if anything, curter.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
Luis Enrique thought for a couple of seconds, looked straight back at the questioner, and gave the curtest of replies.
From Fox News ● Jul. 5, 2021
He came from behind a sea of maps to grant the curtest interview I have ever had.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back would come my third effort with the curtest of refusals.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Beyond giving Mavis the curtest of nods, this young person took no notice of her.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte
The following dates show that I was kept waiting six weeks before being finally favoured with the curtest of refusals: Application made on September 13th, and sent on.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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