Maximally short

Usage examples of curtest.

Through the door Clavain saw a throng of media people, then someone gliding through them, fielding questions with only the curtest of answers.

All the same, the fuss they were making of this young monk, while according only the curtest of nods to the Brigadier, so disgusted him that he was in a hurry to get away.

Gilwater road, thanked Nancy in the curtest polite phrase, and departed.

I said hello once or twice, in passing, but he would give me the curtest possible nod and freeze me with his expression.

Greta Seidenheim clacked away on her machine as if she were recording the curtest, the tritest of business letters.

Ralph, rising with ill-concealed agitation, and stalking out of the room, without the curtest leave-taking.

Ferdy was on the point of suggesting, had not the Viscount nipped such friendly overtures in the bud by scowling upon his victim, offering him the curtest of apologies, handing him his card, climbing into his curricle, and driving off without another word.

After the play he went home, with the curtest of congratulations to the cast and the stage crew.

The curtest, least graphic description of the biting days and nights in the trenches set the lad shivering.

At the bottom of the Row they stopped, shook hands, and with the curtest of nods parted.

Only the curtest of greetings is exchanged between them and they seat themselves at opposite ends of the table.

It informed her in the curtest terms that Probate having at last been obtained, he should call at the Dower House some time during the following week, when he expected to be at Claycross, to explain to her the arrangements which had been made to enable her to draw her allowance as and when she should require it.