terse
Example Sentences
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His manner showed how personal this was to him, delivering terse and sometimes tense answers, about a series of stories that he said had "commercialised" his private life and those close to him.
From BBC
All of these decisions came in response to emergency appeals, resolved with terse, unsigned orders that were issued outside the court’s regular process of holding arguments and writing detailed opinions that explain the justices’ reasoning.
The decision was announced in a terse statement, with no substantive explanation to viewers.
From Salon
Progress was slow, law-enforcement officials said in increasingly terse news conferences.
Similarly, “Rebuilding” is a tale of grief and what-ifs populated by everyday folks who speak in terse tones.
From Los Angeles Times
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