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  • Mother went on talking about how messy I was until I got fed up and said, rather curtly, "I wasn't even the one who said you were careless."   (source)
    curtly = abruptly and discourteously
  • He might give a curt little nod.   (source)
    curt = quick -- possibly to the point of rudeness
  • Lombard said curtly: "Do it in the morning."   (source)
    curtly = abruptly and without courtesy
  • "Set out the books," he said curtly.   (source)
    curtly = in an abrupt manner
  • "Cut some wood," he says curtly to Haie.   (source)
    curtly = abruptly and discourteously
  • [Curtly and decidedly.]   (source)
    curtly = in a manner that uses few words or is abrupt and perhaps discourteous or rude
  • "They'd say," returned my sister, curtly, "pretty well."   (source)
    curtly = in few words
  • The guard nodded curtly and beckoned to his companions.†   (source)
  • Among the Japanese at Omori, Watanabe was despised for his haughtiness, his boasts about his wealth, and his curtness.†   (source)
  • She said it curtly, as if in response to a foolish question; but then she continued more softly.†   (source)
  • His curt remark that they must know what they were doing had surprised Paul.†   (source)
  • Alby nodded once, curtly.†   (source)
  • "Yes, it would," Daito said curtly.†   (source)
  • "No, I don't understand," Mom says curtly.†   (source)
  • "I just don't feel like being a part of the Selection today," I answered curtly.†   (source)
  • The man Jack nodded, curtly.†   (source)
  • Usually the Garners' mail was just bills or thin envelopes carrying curt orders from the Government about how much corn to plant, which fertilizer to use, and where to take their crop when it was harvested.†   (source)
  • This became clear the day after Jim Williams's conviction, when his lawyers went before Judge Oliver to ask for his release on bond and were curtly turned down.†   (source)
  • "No," Nehemia said curtly, and headed toward the hedges that bordered the courtyard.†   (source)
  • One minute I was begging a potato-faced woman behind the widest, cleanest counter for a job, any job (telling her that I would do whatever needed doing, the psychiatric ward, the deathwatch, anything, because I was desperate and I didn't know anyone in Iowa), and the next minute a woman with the curtness and directness of Lillian Gordon, only older, tapped me on the shoulder and said, "You need a meal as well as a job, dear.†   (source)
  • He said curtly, "That's easy to say now It's easy enough, seven years after the fact, to say I-told-you-so."†   (source)
  • I let this drop curtly to bar him from telling me what to do about my work.†   (source)
  • He barely glanced at Teacher Li before saying curtly, "Jiang Ji-li, come to our office right away.†   (source)
  • With a curt smile, she says, "We expect to have a positive experience with you.†   (source)
  • There was something sober and curt in that sweetie.†   (source)
  • "We should not, thank you," Miss Peregrine answered curtly.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," I said curtly, and she stood for a while, looking at us, her mouth opening as if to speak, but the Colonel was staring at her through half-closed eyes, his jaw jutting out and his distaste uncontained.†   (source)
  • "You will not like the ride, I promise you that," he'd said curtly, and since the moment they set out, he had done all he could to live up to that promise.†   (source)
  • She gives me a curt nod and leaves, the man trailing in her wake.†   (source)
  • With a curt bow to the doctor, he was gone.†   (source)
  • Curt Belfair.†   (source)
  • The captain nodded curtly at the preacher and said something else to Hickey, again too low for us to hear.†   (source)
  • She was sharp, curt, like I do not have time for this.†   (source)
  • His response is curt.†   (source)
  • "You know our names," Violet said curtly, a word which here means "tired of Count Olaf's nonsense."†   (source)
  • "No, not really," I said curtly.†   (source)
  • "Alex," she says, nodding curtly.†   (source)
  • Dart heard his curt commands, laughter, then the dying peal of the doorbell.†   (source)
  • 'I doubt it,' he said, and nodded curtly.†   (source)
  • She answers curtly that she doesn't have anything to talk about.†   (source)
  • To the hired help it spoke more curtly: This had better be good, you.†   (source)
  • "Marine," my father answered curtly.†   (source)
  • Except for curtly answering direct questions, he spoke with no one.†   (source)
  • There's nothing in them that would help you," he said curtly.†   (source)
  • Curt, subvert, overexert.†   (source)
  • The mate gave a curt nod.†   (source)
  • He was in the Civic Center Building in Buckminster, one of only three buildings left standing in the city, giving curt answers to stupid questions from a Worldweb newsteep when a plasma booby trap no larger than a microswitch exploded fifteen floors above, blew the newsteep and two of Kassad's aides through a ventilator grille into the street beyond, and dropped the building on him.†   (source)
  • "No," he said curtly, and his tone was livid.†   (source)
  • Joe Burns nodded curtly and said, "Actually, guys, there is no other evolution.†   (source)
  • "Sure," he said curtly, "but what else?"†   (source)
  • "I prefer adventures in the sunlight," replied Elinor curtly.†   (source)
  • "Fine," Lindy replied curtly.†   (source)
  • Brother Jeremiah nodded curtly, and moved toward her with the soundlessness that sent chills up her spine.†   (source)
  • At that he flushed up as if in anger, and jerked his head curtly for me to come with him.†   (source)
  • The Officials nod curtly at us and, one by one, they leave, walking through the foyer, past the port. out the only door in the house.†   (source)
  • "Do you have anything to say in your defense?" the Chancellor asked curtly.†   (source)
  • I didn't know the leader of Amity would be so curt," says Tori with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • She gave a curt nod and turned away.†   (source)
  • "I spend most of the day in the infirmary tent, anyway," she said curtly.†   (source)
  • Kynes spoke curtly: "They're His Majesty's property."†   (source)
  • Hey, Curt, lookey there!†   (source)
  • "Take your place, please," she said curtly, and when she saw both Jenny and me tugging Marley into position, she added: "You are going to have to decide which of you is going to be trainer."†   (source)
  • The doctor spoke in a low, curt voice to the nurse, and she hurried to a side table and brought back some rolls of gauze and silver instruments.†   (source)
  • And then one night he greeted the mistress of the Ichiriki Teahouse in the curtest manner I'd ever seen, by strolling past without so much as a nod.†   (source)
  • "Some of us know it all," Mama says curtly.†   (source)
  • She gave him a resigned look and then nodded curtly.†   (source)
  • He was curt; he really didn't want to take the time.†   (source)
  • "I have to go," I said curtly.†   (source)
  • "Four into fourteen," Hickock curtly corrected him.†   (source)
  • Obedient to the occasion, the boys would have given their best stored yells air, but again, on the instant recognizing their need, the Illustrated Man trapped the sound before it could issue forth, then nodded curtly to the old dust woman.†   (source)
  • I asked for a lawyer and was curtly refused.†   (source)
  • He nods curtly, bitterly.†   (source)
  • Tlic rest of the day is a blur of failed combat battles, curt conversations, and narrow escapes from Helene.†   (source)
  • "Settin' in thar, readin' a book," replied Beulah Catlett curtly.†   (source)
  • I've already done my job," a date had once informed her curtly.†   (source)
  • "No," Owen said curtly.†   (source)
  • On the way in he nodded curtly to his secretary, a man of forty.†   (source)
  • Sooner or later the daily litany of delicate questions and curt replies.†   (source)
  • She curtly fended him off, but he wouldn't listen.†   (source)
  • He ponders this before answering with a curt reply.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," he said curtly.†   (source)
  • Aven started a curt retort, but bit it back.†   (source)
  • "I have an engagement at One Market at six-fifteen," the agent replied curtly.†   (source)
  • "My in-laws were killed in an accident," he told her curtly.†   (source)
  • 'You leave Havermeyer alone,' Colonel Korn ordered Yossarian curtly.†   (source)
  • "I don't know, whatever's in there," she says curtly before disappearing into her room to change out of her work clothes.†   (source)
  • Vlad nodded curtly to Eddie, who did the same, gesturing to his new camera.†   (source)
  • "Never mind!" my mother said curtly, "! ust pray for the dearly departed souls—"†   (source)
  • She curtly interrupted the bald man.†   (source)
  • "Fine," says the girl curtly, and swipes the card.†   (source)
  • She made a curt bow, and left.†   (source)
  • "Adam," she says with a curt nod.†   (source)
  • He greeted me with a curt nod of his head and muttered something about not really being in the mood for Talmud now but we had to go up anyway.†   (source)
  • His father had been curt, but it could have been much worse.†   (source)
  • I set down in the first empty space I found, told Seivarden curtly to get out, and did so myself.†   (source)
  • "Never pursues his victories" was Montresor's curt assessment of William Howe.†   (source)
  • "Let's not go into it," said St. Jacques curtly, removing his hand from his sister's.†   (source)
  • She'd been curt with him the next day.†   (source)
  • That,' said the inspector curtly, is my whip.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid I can't," replied the Archmage curtly.†   (source)
  • "If you've come to pick me up," Lee said curtly, "you'll need to get my bags."†   (source)
  • Deceased colonels," Pig said curtly.†   (source)
  • "Can we f-focus on the important problem, please?" he said curtly.†   (source)
  • While most people wrote two or three curt lines, he would have spent his whole visit checking every tap and shower to see what was wrong and would have plenty to say.†   (source)
  • His face softened, as if he were trying to make up for his curtness.†   (source)
  • The drums were clipped and curt.†   (source)
  • "Fine," he says curtly.†   (source)
  • Harald Goldtooth stepped out of the tent just long enough to give a curt, businesslike nod to the officer who must have been his captain.†   (source)
  • His voice is curt and cold.†   (source)
  • He was curt with Scheibert.†   (source)
  • Lucas gave me a curt nod.†   (source)
  • A flourish from the TRAGEDIANS' band. curt: There are the players.†   (source)
  • JX said curtly: "NO.†   (source)
  • With a curt nod, Stormgren moved over to the only vacant seat and tried to look self-possessed.†   (source)
  • ANNIE [CURTLY]: An alphabet.†   (source)
  • I did not think it my place to fill him in on anything Don may not have cared to, so I might have been a little curt.†   (source)
  • You're not wanted here," said Edmund curtly.†   (source)
  • If he listened at all, it was with impatience or maybe a curt sneer—"Quit talking baloney, Colonel"—for Uncle Charlie was contemptuous of Uncle Hal's great plans.†   (source)
  • He nodded curtly, went out, and closed the door smartly behind him.†   (source)
  • He was aware that he'd cut her off curtly.†   (source)
  • "You stay with us," Colin said curtly.†   (source)
  • She gave Winslow a curt nod, and he started the second round.†   (source)
  • "Under arrest," Mundt replied curtly.†   (source)
  • Hannah continued to look into her gentle and ever more incredulous and shining eyes; she found that she could not speak and that she was nodding, as curtly, and rapidly, almost as if she were palsied.†   (source)
  • Edmund's voice answers curtly, "Yes.†   (source)
  • Thanks, Curt.†   (source)
  • "Listen to me," said Dick curtly.†   (source)
  • "The baby is nearly well now," he said curtly.   (source)
    curtly = briefly to the point of rudeness
  • "Cut-throat, yes; cutpurse, no." Gringoire tried to slip in some excuse between these curt words, which wrath rendered more and more jerky.   (source)
    curt = brief to the point of rudeness
  • Beneath the burqa, the doctor shook her head curtly.†   (source)
  • His friend gave him a sharp look but nodded curtly.†   (source)
  • Uncle Vernon nodded curtly behind Aunt Marge's back.†   (source)
  • "Not all of us have photographic memories," I said curtly.†   (source)
  • 'We can't set him free, he knows too much about the Order,' said Sirius curtly.†   (source)
  • 'Then do it,' she said curtly, and left the room.†   (source)
  • "Snape," she said curtly as she passed him.†   (source)
  • Harry nodded curtly, but found that for some reason he did not mind Luna talking about Sirius.†   (source)
  • If Voldemort should read Harry's mind and see you acting for him — " "I know," said Snape curtly.†   (source)
  • "I think I will go back to bed," Snape said curtly.†   (source)
  • "Show us where he is," his friend ordered curtly.†   (source)
  • At last he nodded, curtly, without lowering his hand.†   (source)
  • She was silent, then said curtly,He'll meet you at the inn.†   (source)
  • ? haven't got time to argue,' said Harry curtly.†   (source)
  • "Well, I haven't laid eyes on him in years," I said curtly.†   (source)
  • Wells looked up from the plate he'd been staring at, then nodded curtly.†   (source)
  • "My brother is not here to answer questions, Lannister," Robb said curtly.†   (source)
  • He nodded curtly to Blomkvist and stood behind Salander, gently putting a hand on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • When they landed, Murtagh asked curtly, "What now?"†   (source)
  • "I can't afford any other type of payment," he said curtly when Frode persisted.†   (source)
  • Harry heard talking at the door, and someone laughing, and Uncle Vernon answering curtly.†   (source)
  • "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly.†   (source)
  • "I am his Head of House, and I shall decide how hard, or other-wise, to be," said Snape curtly.†   (source)
  • 'Put that wand away at once,' he said curtly.†   (source)
  • "I can't wait," I said curtly, taking my half of the cash and heading back to my room.†   (source)
  • I am becoming seriously concerned, I can't deny it _" "Then flee," said Snapes voice curtly.†   (source)
  • I'll tell you later," said Harry curtly.†   (source)
  • That's all that is needed," answered the bald man curtly.†   (source)
  • And then, seeming to realize he'd spoken too curtly: "Welty was Juliet's big brother.†   (source)
  • 'Sit,' said Umbridge curtly, pointing towards a chair.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore waited until Harry had nodded curtly, then went on.†   (source)
  • The warriors nodded curtly and carried Arya out of the room.†   (source)
  • "No," said Hermione curtly, pointing up a side passage.†   (source)
  • 'I believe you, Potter,' said Professor McGonagall curtly.†   (source)
  • He waved, Barty Crouch nodded curtly, and both of them Disapparated.†   (source)
  • Professor McGonagall asked curtly, without looking at Professor Umbridge.†   (source)
  • "No, of course not," said Hermione curtly, "I hardly think students are supposed to -"†   (source)
  • "He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand," said Dumbledore curtly.†   (source)
  • Fang nodded curtly, then motioned with his head.†   (source)
  • "He took some time off," Bublanski replied curtly.†   (source)
  • She sniffed again, with her eyes closed, then opened them and said curtly, "You've been smoking.†   (source)
  • "You'll meet when you're wed," said Walder Rivers curtly.†   (source)
  • Morton blinked at her and then nodded curtly.†   (source)
  • I'm fine," he said curtly, noticing me watching him.†   (source)
  • 'The leg's worse, isn't it?' asked David curtly.†   (source)
  • "Fine," I said curtly, frustrated as his words reminded me of the more urgent crisis at hand.†   (source)
  • "Something I bought for myself," I said curtly, grabbing for it again.†   (source)
  • He was bald and cynical and talked curtly out of the side of his mouth while sucking on a lollipop.†   (source)
  • "Lady Sansa," the Hound announced curtly when he saw her.†   (source)
  • Palmgren nodded curtly and shuffled over to the chair opposite Blomkvist.†   (source)
  • Tell them you'll get your phone taken away," she said curtly.†   (source)
  • "Go to bed," Momma said curtly, and the fear was back in her eyes.†   (source)
  • "Dead," replied Max curtly, bending down to inspect Toby.†   (source)
  • "This is a damage limitation exercise," says Luke curtly.†   (source)
  • "Let's go, Alex," said Holland curtly, walking away from the bed toward the door.†   (source)
  • "No," she said curtly, and turned away from me.†   (source)
  • Ramius nodded curtly, having already reached that conclusion.†   (source)
  • He nodded curtly once before he went out and locked the door.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aucamp curtly informed us that we were being transferred.†   (source)
  • "We don't drink with your sort," yellow cloak said curtly.†   (source)
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