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
This has been the case since the dawn of mobile devices and algorithmic personalization, but forced separations may have turned curt, unexplained goodbyes into a perceived relationship norm.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Her curt weekly directive was to take one from the pile and stick it in wrapping paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
When I did respond, via WhatsApp message, she was curt: “Hello, you finally replied to my message. I thought you were taken away by aliens.”
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
The ink would not flow properly, and all his words seemed curt and crude and clumsy, yet he persisted.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
"I have never had that thought, Boris Alexandrovitch," replied the other in a tone curter still.
From The Secret of the Night by Leroux, Gaston
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.
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
"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
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
Beyond giving Mavis the curtest of nods, this young person took no notice of her.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)
They replied with the curtest of nods, and I attended them from the house.
From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose
The elevator man made her the curtest of bows and proceeded to arrange matters with a rapidity which almost took her breath away.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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