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
"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
The leader squinted at me before stepping aside with a curt nod.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
He stood up, and made another bow, much curter than his former one.
From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy
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 Charles W. Bardsley
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 Ruth Sawyer
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
"We have finished our business—and Mr. Lathrop I am sure will excuse me—I must get some letters off by post—" And with the curtest of bows she disappeared.
From Delia Blanchflower by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The rest waited a few yards away, and the man with the dark eyes greeted Eshelby, who responded with the curtest inclination, courteously.
From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss
"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
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 7
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