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Answer for the clue "In few words ", 7 letters:
tersely

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Word definitions for tersely in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a short and concise manner; "a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds" [syn: telegraphically ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a brief, concise, or to the point manner.

Usage examples of tersely.

Azure said tersely, and went on to explain that the living switchboards enabled members of the Associative to stay in touch with each other over considerable distances.

Kahteney declared tersely, favoring the Naiche wakanisha with an irritated glance.

Brigid tersely told him that the surviving Mags had surrendered to the Tigers of Heaven.

At the very least, he told Tenet, tersely, someone should be sent to Riyadh to get the Saudis to rearrest the trio that had recently been released.

There was an occasional shout, a tersely barked order, the rattle of machinery as it approached the adit, but most of the sounds of activity in the mines was swallowed in the silverlined bowels of the mountain.

Nor could anyone say with any substantial probability where the damned machines had originated, though the captured records, sketchy as they were, offered a tersely convincing explanation of how they had come into being.

It was a brief, tersely worded statement ending with the fact that the ship had taken up a geostationary orbit some twenty-three thousand miles out in space.

Master Li tersely explained what had transpired, and Yen Shih appeared to hang on every word.

I tersely informed Sara of our sudden need, and she quickly created a platter of warmed pastries and hot mulled wine for me.

Jak said tersely, looking out the wide picture window in the living room at the pack of huge timber wolves.

I report tersely, angling my drone to pick up the battle raging just northwest of the capital city.

Tersely Joe recounted the main points of his conversation with Sarah Tyrrell and his impressions of her and her nephew.