All 3 Uses
terse
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- After seeing to it that every crewman's shoes were spit-shined, every bunk was properly made, and every footlocker was arranged according to the book, the executive officer would take the two-day-old badges and hand the sailors new ones, usually along with some terse advice to square themselves away as New Soviet Men ought.†
Chpt 7. *
- Finished with his terse announcement, Ramius ordered the submarine to approach the surface.†
Chpt 13.
- Borodin was giving terse, monosyllabic orders as he conned the submarine up a channel that had to be dredged every few months despite the enormous jetty which had been built to the north.†
Chpt 15.
Definitions:
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(1)
(terse) using words sparingly -- sometimes in a way that seems unfriendly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)