Synonym: abrupt, short, sudden, unexpected. Similar words: curtly, curtail, curtain, iron curtain, court, hurt, spurt, fourth. Meaning: [kɜːt] 
adj. 1. marked by rude or peremptory shortness 2. brief and to the point; effectively cut short.
adj. 1. marked by rude or peremptory shortness 2. brief and to the point; effectively cut short. 
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1 The boss was rather curt with him.
2 Her tone of voice was curt.
3 He dismissed them with a curt nod.
4 His tone was curt and unfriendly.
5 The assistant behind the counter gave a curt nod.
6 He gave me an extremely curt answer.
7 He's rather curt when he's angry.
8 'No!' was his curt rejoinder.
9 "The matter is closed," was the curt reply.
10 With a curt nod, he turned away and sat down.
11 The ambassador dismissed him with a curt nod of the head.
12 A curt note of rejection arrived from the company director.
13 He thanks Paul with a curt nod.
14 I responded with curt answers tempered with moderate annoyance.
15 He responded with a curt, three-sentence letter.
16 His curt tone made her stomach lurch.
17 Curt doesn't let anyone touch his golf clubs.
18 She answered their questions with a curt "No comment".
19 The rap on the door was hard and curt.
20 Polly was curt and businesslike with her clients.
21 The Phillies' Curt Schilling smothered the Blue Jays,[www.Sentencedict.com] 5-0.
22 On the sixth day, after a curt nod from the chef, Mark realised he must be doing something half-right.
23 The announcement came in a curt one-paragraph press release, with no explanation.
24 Charman's curt reviews got slightly more excitable as the year drew on.
25 Blanche gave a few more curt television interviews, voicing her horror at the murder and appealing for any information.
26 This diligence can only be exercised once the curt papers have been served on the debtor.
27 He found him a hard-working and honest man, if a little curt and tacit.
28 She hadn't missed the sting in the tail in that curt directive.
29 He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before, but I passed by with a curt nod.
30 It was too absurd - the invitation, then this curt dismissal, as if I had exhausted his patience.
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