curt

I felt pretty curt about then, and he raised an eyebrow.

Asked if any progress had been made, he responded with a curt no.

She left a very curt message and leaned back in her chair.

Hal cut him off with a curt shake of the head.

The youth leaned forward, speaking in a rather curt voice.

"No way," he said, with a curt shake of the head.

The beginnings are often curt, the endings even more abrupt.

The human quickly vetoed the suggestion with a curt shake of his head.

"I asked Bobby and he gave me a rather curt answer," he said.

Someone jeered, but a curt hand signal from the man cut their noise off.

They both gave me curt hellos before diving back into their schedule.

Maybe the doctor was too curt with them.

His curt voice lashed an order over the wire to Burbank.

"I wondered why she was so curt," he said.

One of them saw me and motioned me back with a curt hand wave.

"He can be very curt," said a senior adviser.

The man turned, giving a curt hand signal to one of his assistants who proceeded to close and lock the door.

"We will continue this discussion when we get upstairs," I said in a cold, curt voice.

Instead, he simply gave a single, curt nod.

A static-filled, curt voice came out of the panel.

He refused the offer with a curt shake of his head, speaking in a clipped whisper.

Seward himself had written the somewhat curt letter that Cameron now held in his hand.

Nohar supposed he'd been a little too curt with her, but he had other things on his mind.

She made a short, curt motion to indicate the spartan stateroom.

I thank the President-in-Office for his very short and curt reply.