All 3 Uses of
curt
in
Babbitt
- Though this time he heard his own voice and knew that it was curt, though she was looking at him with wide-eyed reproach, he stumped into the hall, jerked on his ulster and furlined gloves, and went out to start the car.†
Chpt 31
- He considered going to see Paul in prison, but, though he had a pale curt note from him every week, he thought of Paul as dead.†
Chpt 32
- Dilling nodded in his curtest manner and strode up-stairs Babbitt tramped the living-room in agony.†
Chpt 33 *
Definition:
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(curt) brief to the point of rudeness