| To the point |
USA Today |
09 Oct 2025 |
| Terse (4) |
Mirror Quick |
30 Sep 2025 |
| Short dog is on time (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
30 Sep 2025 |
| Short and sour |
Newsday |
27 Sep 2025 |
| Copper right to be abrupt (4) |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Sep 2025 |
| Concise |
The Times Sunday Concise |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Rudely brief in legal institution, nothing less (4) |
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| Short, terse (4) |
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| Far from wordy |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Jul 2025 |
| Being short, the poor dog has only a bit of a tail (4) |
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| Concise crossword usually reasonably tractable at first |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 May 2025 |
| Brusque |
Thomas Joseph |
14 May 2025 |
| It's short for a dog, the first terrier (4) |
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| Like a snippy reply |
Family Time |
05 May 2025 |
| In short, a dog-cart, not a car (4) |
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| Rudely short |
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| Brusque,snippy(4) |
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| Rudely brief |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Brusque (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
07 Mar 2025 |
| A worthless one takes tea in a rudely abrupt manner (4) |
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| Short cut round the far end (4) |
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| Rudely blunt and brief (4) |
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| Abrupt, sometimes rude |
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| Short dog with a little tail |
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| Dog with very little tail - short (4) |
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| On radio, actor Russell is brief (4) |
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| Anything but loquacious |
Universal |
10 Dec 2024 |
| Brusque |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Dec 2024 |
| Rudely brief |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
04 Dec 2024 |
| Brief and rather rude |
Mirror Classic |
18 Nov 2024 |
| Snappish mutt that's close (4) |
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| To be brief, you're in a rut, see! |
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| Very short dog with a trouble-free tail! (4) |
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| Brusque |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Abrupt |
Puzzler Backwords |
27 Sep 2024 |
| Terse |
Mirror Tea Time |
18 Sep 2024 |
| Short drapes reduced by 50% (4) |
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| Snippy, brusque, rudely brief (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Abrupt, terse |
The Times Concise |
15 Jun 2024 |
| In short, cut right in (4) |
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| Rudely brief |
Universal |
11 Jun 2024 |
| Mongrel starts licking hair that's not straight (4) |
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| Discourteously brief |
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| Brusque, gruff (4) |
Puzzler |
09 Apr 2024 |
| Brusque (4) |
Puzzler |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Short curtains reduced by 50% (4) |
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| Gruff dog starting to turn |
The Guardian Quiptic |
26 Feb 2024 |
| Terse refusal to recognise person is about right (4) |
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| Spookiest |
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| Rudely brief |
USA Today |
06 Feb 2024 |
| Terse |
New York Times |
26 Jan 2024 |
| Brusque, snippy |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Jan 2024 |
| Dog's tail at the tip is short (4) |
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| Brusque (not at all chatty) (4) |
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| Snappish dog with a trouble-free tail (4) |
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| Short record covering Queen |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Sep 2023 |
| Brusque |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Sep 2023 |
| Brusque |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Aug 2023 |
| Rudely abrupt |
Newsday |
01 Aug 2023 |
| Rudely terse |
Wall Street Journal |
24 May 2023 |
| Brusque |
Canadiana |
24 Apr 2023 |
| Short, to the point of rudeness |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Mar 2023 |
| Abrupt |
Universal |
15 Dec 2022 |
| Rudely abrupt |
Newsday |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Brusque |
The Guardian Speedy |
25 Sep 2022 |
| Short and sharp |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Aug 2022 |
| Brusque |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Jun 2022 |
| Brusque |
The Guardian Speedy |
19 Jun 2022 |
| Rudely brief |
The Times Concise |
03 Jun 2022 |
| Rude sentry's edging away from royal greeting |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Apr 2022 |
| Rude sentry's edging away from royal greeting |
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| Far from wordy |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Mar 2022 |
| Abrupt |
Universal |
12 Mar 2022 |
| Judicial body throwing out old brief |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Jan 2022 |
| Short but not sweet, as a response |
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| Brusque king tucking into chop |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Nov 2021 |
| Brusque king tucking into chop |
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| Brusque |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Oct 2021 |
| Impolitely abrupt |
Newsday |
11 Aug 2021 |
| Hardly polite |
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| Disrespectfully brief |
Universal |
08 May 2021 |
| Dog's tense and gruff |
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| Short |
Jonesin |
02 Mar 2021 |
| Brusque |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Feb 2021 |
| Brusque |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Feb 2021 |
| Short and snippy |
Newsday |
10 Dec 2020 |
| Copper right to be abrupt |
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| Terse |
USA Today |
29 Oct 2020 |
| Brusque |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Aug 2020 |
| Rudely brief |
Newsday |
11 Mar 2020 |
| Snappish |
Newsday |
22 Feb 2020 |
| To the point |
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| Concise |
The Times Concise |
03 Nov 2019 |
| Impolitely short |
Newsday |
15 Sep 2019 |
| Brusque |
Canadiana |
12 Aug 2019 |
| To the point, rather rudely |
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| Terse |
Thomas Joseph |
08 May 2019 |
| Rudely terse |
USA Today |
28 Apr 2019 |
| Abrupt |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Apr 2019 |
| Rude scoundrel on time |
|
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| Rudely short-spoken |
USA Today |
12 Feb 2019 |
| Short copper with raincoat inside out |
|
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| Rudely short-spoken |
|
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| Abrupt |
|
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| Rudely terse |
|
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| Rude scoundrel on time |
|
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| Unceremonious over leaving playing area |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Dec 2018 |
| Rudely terse |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Nov 2018 |
| Rudely abrupt |
USA Today |
14 Nov 2018 |
| Rudely brief |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Oct 2018 |
| Rudely terse |
Newsday |
09 Sep 2018 |
| Terse |
LA Times Daily |
16 Jul 2018 |
| Terse |
The Washington Post |
16 Jul 2018 |
| Hardly windy |
Family Time |
15 Jul 2018 |
| Short circuit usually ruins the leads |
|
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| Rude contemptible man in front of bar |
|
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| Far from chatty |
Newsday |
24 May 2018 |
| Brusque |
The Guardian Speedy |
05 May 2018 |
| Short |
The Washington Post |
11 Apr 2018 |
| Short |
LA Times Daily |
11 Apr 2018 |
| Abrupt |
Universal |
08 Jan 2018 |
| Abrupt |
|
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| Terse |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Rudely terse |
|
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| Short |
|
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| Abrupt |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Dec 2017 |
| Short axe is about right |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Dec 2017 |
| Brusque scoundrel with model |
|
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| Short and not sweet |
Universal |
26 Sep 2017 |
| Short |
New York Times |
23 Sep 2017 |
| Short but not necessarily sweet |
New York Times |
12 Aug 2017 |
| Short dog with tail? Just its tip |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Jul 2017 |
| Rudely brief |
The Times Concise |
16 May 2017 |
| Marked by rude shortness |
Universal |
09 May 2017 |
| Abrupt |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 May 2017 |
| Short and not so sweet |
|
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| Short cut that's about right |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Jan 2017 |
| Marked by rude shortness |
|
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| Short but not necessarily sweet |
|
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| Austerity measure covering end of year, in short |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Jan 2017 |
| Short and not sweet |
|
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| Short |
|
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| Far from wordy |
USA Today |
04 Nov 2016 |
| Dog which is scruffy, tense and snappish |
|
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| Abrupt |
Family Time |
16 Oct 2016 |
| Short man, say |
|
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| Short-spoken |
The Washington Post |
08 Aug 2016 |
| Terse |
New York Times |
05 Apr 2016 |
| Brusque |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Mar 2016 |
| Far from wordy |
|
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| Abrupt |
USA Today |
24 Nov 2015 |
| Far from loquacious |
USA Today |
29 Oct 2015 |
| Rudely terse |
Premier Sunday |
23 Aug 2015 |
| Rudely terse |
Universal |
18 Aug 2015 |
| Abrupt |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| Rudely terse |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Far from loquacious |
|
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| Rudely terse |
|
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| Blunt |
|
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| Rudely terse |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Abrupt |
|
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| Terse |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Far from chatty |
|
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| Clipped |
|
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| Snappy dog bit tail |
|
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| Snappish |
|
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| Short |
|
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| Clipped (or the start of an Air Force general's split personality) |
|
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| Of few words |
|
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| Laconic |
|
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| Short |
|
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| Short and not so sweet |
|
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| Short and not so sweet |
|
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| Short and to the point |
|
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| Rudely brief and to the point |
|
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| Brusque |
|
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| Brusque |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| Snappish |
|
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| Short and not so sweet |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| Snappish |
|
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| Short and not so sweet |
|
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| Terse to the point of rudeness |
|
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| Snippy |
|
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| Snippy |
|
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| Brief |
|
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| Snippy |
|
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| Short-spoken |
|
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| Of few words |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| Short and not sweet |
|
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| Hardly windy |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Pitcher Schilling |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| Pitcher Schilling |
|
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| Abrupt |
|
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| Abrupt |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| A bit brusque |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Brusque |
|
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| Brusque |
|
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| Hardly garrulous |
|
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| Snippy |
|
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| Short-spoken |
|
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| Brusque |
|
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| Abrupt |
|
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| Concise |
|
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| Concise |
|
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| Terse |
|
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| To the point |
|
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| Sportscaster Gowdy |
|
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| Hardly chatty |
|
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| Short but not sweet |
|
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| Flood of baseball |
|
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| Brusque |
|
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| Short-spoken |
|
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| Snappish |
|
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| Impolitely abrupt |
|
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| Flood of baseball |
|
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| Short and to-the-point |
|
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| Sharp or blunt |
|
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| Far from loquacious |
|
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| Sportscaster Gowdy |
|
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| Abrupt |
|
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| Rudely brief |
|
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| Not real chatty |
|
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| Sharp |
|
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| Rudely abrupt |
|
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| Snippy |
|
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| Rudely terse |
|
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| Short |
|
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| Snippy |
|
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| Brief and brusque |
|
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| Short and not so sweet |
|
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| Short and snippy |
|
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| Terse or brusque |
|
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| Short; abrupt |
|
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| Laconic to a fault |
|
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| Short and sour |
|
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| Abruptly to the point |
|
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| Abrupt in speech |
|
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| Mincing no words |
|
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| Rudely concise |
|
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| Flood of baseball |
|
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| Rudely brief. |
|
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| Brief. |
|
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| So brief as to be rude. |
|
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| Concise. |
|
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| Short and impolite. |
|
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| Abrupt in speech. |
|
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| To the point |
|
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| Hardly windy |
|
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| Bluff. |
|
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| Blunt. |
|
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| Succinct. |
|
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| Rudely concise. |
|
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| Short. |
|
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| Abbreviated |
|
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| Brusque. |
|
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| Abrupt. |
|
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