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curtly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial curtly has 1 sense
- curtly(r = adv.all) short, shortly - in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
THESAURUS
curtly
abruptly, aphoristically, bearishly, bluffly, bluntly, boorishly, brashly, briefly, brusquely, cavalierly, churlishly, compendiously, concisely, crisply, crustily, economically, gruffly, harshly, in brief compass, laconically, nastily, pithily, pointedly, sententiously, sharply, shortly, snippily, sparely, succinctly, summarily, synoptically, tersely
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