curtadjective
uk/kɜːt/us/kɝːt/disapprovingIf someone's manner or speech is curt, it is rude as a result of being very quick:
to give a curt nod/reply
Andy was very curt with him.
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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Not saying much
curtly
adverb uk/ˈkɜːt.li/us/ˈkɝːt.li/
Steve answered curtly and turned his back on me.
curtness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈkɜːt.nəs/us/ˈkɝːt.nəs/
Claire's curtness made him wonder what he'd done wrong.