curt
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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
When he came off the ice, the hug from Tutberidze seemed curt.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
The intelligence chief’s curt, deadpan delivery has helped popularize the work of the military intelligence agency, known as HUR, with the public using Budanov’s interviews for widely circulated memes on social media mocking Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Matthias rapped out a curt command, “Leave us, mice. Go back to your duties on the wall.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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 Bennett, Arnold
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 Kipling, Rudyard
Frederick was younger than the other men too; but his manner was, if anything, curter.
From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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 Bardsley, Charles W.
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
"What have you been doing all this time?" old Jonas asked in his sharpest and curtest tone.
From The Bishop and the Boogerman by Harris, Joel Chandler
The elevator man made her the curtest of inclinations, and proceeded to arrange matters with a rapidity which almost took her breath away.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus
The two rarely met, for that matter, and exchanged only the baldest and curtest forms of speech.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
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