terse

Her voice was terse when she got back on the line.

Ask about his success, and the answer is almost terse.

Keep it terse, say some new development has come up.

With a few terse words he gave the order to attack.

He quickly read the terse code and went back to his board.

Some are terse, like the one a 52-year-old man wrote before shooting himself.

He will be out until further notice, the college said in a terse statement.

She tried to interpret who it could be from her father's terse questions.

I am told it was given a lean, terse production.

Even the captain had seemed a bit more terse than usual.

"No." The answer was terser than it should have been.

Their conversation was terse and concerned only with the mission.

Others said that their callers, though terse, did seem to know why they were on the line.

So many of the terse entries show how close to the edge I was.

They had no wish to spend long together, and the conversation was terse.

He obviously knew all about it, so Frost was terse.

They sent it to her with a terse request that she not return home.

The story is terse and beautifully alive from beginning to end.

"All clear," her terse voice said inside their helmets after a moment.

Sometimes a friend can save your life by writing terse prose.

Perhaps it was my imagination, but there seemed to be a terse edge to his voice.

Thus, its programs can be very terse and are considered difficult to read by some programmers.

She responded with a terse "no comment" when asked about the book.

Rather, it refers to the most terse solution to a problem.