Examples
“Then he got the call after two P.M. Some man who wouldn't give his name curtly stating that M.lanie needed him.”
“His voice was heard calling curtly from the dining-room.”
“Nothing on this record could be described as curtly as a 'song'.”
“GMA, she answered "curtly," said one source: "No decision has been made.”
““Any questions or concerns that you have should be directed to my attorney, David Weisberg,” she said curtly.”
“The security officer manning the entrance curtly informed Misha that Ms. Mitchell was not receiving any visitors that day and Misha promptly commenced to curse him out.”
““Do you have an appointment?” the receptionist asked curtly.”
“Regan listened impatiently before curtly dismissing some with a promise to “give it more thought,” and dispatching others with a nod to Mick Lowe and an instruction to “get on it.””
“If he had, Samuelson would curtly instruct him not to do something like that again.”
“Samuelson talked twice more to Trask: the first time to gather more information, and the second to explain, rather curtly, the plan they had conceived to limit the potential damage from his indiscretion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘curtly’.
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September Words-11849
During the month of September, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has...
psilocybin, raca, schema, myriad, copacetic, chastise, fractal, tourniquet, turncoat, vicarious, surreptitiously, clandestine and 34 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Bright's Passage
tendril, perfunctorily, slurry, emplacement, foray, dray, reverie, rill, chokecherry, ninebark, ess, meep and 30 more...
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parabolart's Words
uppity, presaged, coronation, jovially, dour, curtly, conniving, admonish, antagonize, empathy, derisive, extrinsic and 41 more...
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agustinolvera "Not all of us have photographic minds, I said curtly." Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page28 Oct 4, 2010