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
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
If time doesn’t allow for this, Fitzgerald says, it is often considered better to slip away than to appear rushed or insincere in a curt goodbye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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
He eyes me and Alex and gives us a curt nod.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
And he became curter and curter, as he noticed the new deference which even Clara practised towards him.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
It is true they must have resorted, not unfrequently, to curter forms, much after the fashion of the now almost forgotten nick forms of the Plantagenet days.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
"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
Maybe the possessive form of address: "Mon general," "mon capitaine," helps the idea, which our men cloke in other and curter phrases.
From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling
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
She informed him of the bare fact in the curtest manner, without preface or apology or explanation.
From The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
They replied with the curtest of nods, and I attended them from the house.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
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