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Definition
using words sparingly
(Depending upon the context, this can have a negative connotation of minimizing social interaction due to ill feelings.)
(Depending upon the context, this can have a negative connotation of minimizing social interaction due to ill feelings.)
- I couldn't imagine what my mother's sad red dress, her dummy, and Mary Magdalene's stolen arms could ever possibly be for—and I said so, a little more tersely than I meant to.p. 547.4
There are no more uses of "terse" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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