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curtness

/kurt/US // kɜrt //UK // (kɜːt) //

严谨性,紧密性,凝重,密封性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    curt·er, curt·est.

    • : rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
    • : brief; concise; terse; laconic.
    • : short; shortened.

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Examples

  • Both men curtly acknowledged Barrington's greeting, hardly conscious of the curtness maybe.

  • Stephen was made of much finer stuff than Bob, but he had not the latter's graceful humor and his curtness jarred.

  • The command came when it was needed, for Hetty was almost dismayed, and its curtness was bracing.

  • Amory supposed that it must be something in that close and grey-looking oblong that was at the bottom of his imperious curtness.

  • I returned his nod with a curtness I was at no pains to dissemble.