Definitionn. a neatly short and concise expressive style
Last update: September 28, 2015
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There were six of the clippings, all from English papers, English in their terseness, brief as stock exchange reports, and equally to the point. [Please select]
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There was a brief silence, but the Russian's terseness of speech did not last long. [Please select]
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Coddington glanced up, answering with characteristic terseness: "Yes, it is true that Peter is my boy, Tyler," he said. [Please select]
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Miss Martineau's style is always excellent for strength and fulness of meaning, and at times she has a real genius for terseness. [Please select]
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The girl had looked up in surprise at the crisp terseness of Susan's reply. [Please select]
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In spite of the curt terseness of the word, Nancy quite understood the anxiety that lay behind that short "well." [Please select]
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Forrester returned with some terseness, for she felt his remark to be unbecoming. [Please select]
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The special messages which the ocean wires bring, doubtless with exquisite terseness and picturesqueness, are most carefully interwritten and diluted; so that, for example, the words "Thiers spoke at Coulmiers" become "M." [Please select]
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The terseness of Susan's reply and the expression on her face showed that the emphasis on the "Master" was not lost upon her. [Please select]
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