"try to cultivate a less brusque manner" "a curt reply" "the salesgirl was very short with him"
"a crisp retort" "a response so curt as to be almost rude" "the laconic reply; `yes'" "short and terse and easy to understand"
Pictures drawn by himself of what, from the curt descriptions, he imagined the saga heroes to have looked like.
I barely answered him, and he must have thought me curt.
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