curtness

IPA: kˈɝtnɪs

Examples of "curtness" in Sentences

She had a curtness and a dismissiveness that I found very unpleasant.
Fia sat up and shoved her hair from her face, wondering at the curtness of his tone.
“We sure do,” Ted said heartily, knowing that Rita had been upset by his curtness when he arrived.
His curtness was an attempt to end this personal speculation on a topic that was none of their business.
Father was the sort of man who greeted a telephone salesperson with utter brevity and curtness, but Tom Bradford was different.
In fact Curtly's curtness was a pleasant balm to the bombast and phoniness of even the most well-intentioned and unarguably necessary awards do, an impression not immediately dispelled by the appearance of the hosts, an unlikely sandwiching together of Gaby Logan and Ravi Shastri.