All 3 Uses of
terse
in
Queen of Babble
- Who snakes out an arm, grabs me by the shoulder, and pulls me into the room with a terse "Please go away, Craig" to her future son-in-law before slamming the door shut behind us.†
- Luke says tersely.†
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- But before I can say anything, he asks, in a voice that's very different from the terse one in which, a few minutes earlier, he suggested we just forget about it, "How did you know?†
Definition:
using words sparingly -- sometimes in a way that seems unfriendly