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
Djokovic can be curt, but more often he’s contemplative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
"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
His orders were curt, as usual, but quiet.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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 Hamilton Drummond
"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 William Hope Hodgson
The knight began to take long walks and rides with his brother, and from each walk and ride came back with a more gloomy face and a curter manner.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
And he became curter and curter, as he noticed the new deference which even Clara practised towards him.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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 Joel Chandler Harris
Back would come my third effort with the curtest of refusals.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
I made some obligatory enquiries, in my capacity of host, but my unwelcome guest gave me only the curtest of replies.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
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