What does curt mean?
Curt means Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude..
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/kɝt/ · adjective
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude..
Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]
Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
Use curt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Curt means Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude..
Common synonyms include brusque, short, terse, crisp.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]
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