Use of the word curtness in a sentence example

curtness

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The workmanship is unequal, curtness alternating with redundance, and carelessness with elaboration. [Please select]

"Oh, shut up, doc," said Barry with quite unusual curtness. [Please select]

A tale is the better for length, a ballad for its curtness. [Please select]

The curtness of the answer might have displeased another woman. [Please select]

I only talk now and again," answered the priest, with what seemed a suggestion of curtness." [Please select]

Though she herself was at fault, the curtness of his message aroused her irritation. [Please select]

"A lady to see you, sir," Paddy Rouse announced with military curtness, saluting. [Please select]

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