curt

"Immediately, it was as if we were wasting this doctor's time and he was quite curt with Meg," Helen said.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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

Chalamet’s words were curt, but his opinion was only further muddled by the clip being spread out of context.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Until, that is, I noticed myself crossing some invisible line: I wasn’t just focused; I was curt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

I didn’t know what had embold­ened me to be so curt, maybe the fact that I thought I was going to die anyway.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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.

The woman’s voice was curter, and the uninviting muzzle of a bull-terrier was thrust out between the door and the woman’s skirts.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth

"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 Hodgson, William Hope

For a moment Commines hesitated, annoyed by a tone curter and colder than his own, but after a glance at La Mothe's set face he motioned to the servant to go.

From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton

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 shut herself within the walls of a cold and sullen reserve, never speaking unless spoken to, answering with the curtest of monosyllables.

From A Question of Marriage by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

And with the curtest possible nod to the father, and no recognition whatever of the son, Mr. Blackett linked his arm in Matthew's and strode away to his carriage.

From With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Strang, Herbert

But compare this with the fact that the leading men in England at this very time were recognized only by the curtest of abbreviated names.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.