(a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stout – even the name is robust: broad-mouthed and curtly clipped at the end.
(2) Immediately after the budget, he vented his fury by destroying the group’s online presence, removing all its content and replacing the home page with a curt note stating: “This website is temporarily closed owing to disability cuts ... Graeme Ellis has resigned and will no longer develop or host this site.” His protest had an unexpectedly powerful impact, attracting headlines, and crystallising the sense that this was a cut too far, even for Conservative activists.
(3) ", to which the prime minister replied somewhat curtly: "Yes, we were neighbours."
(4) The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council issued curt but not hostile statements that publicly expressed their desire to meet him.
(5) "We will obviously fight it because it is not justified and there is no way she's going back over there," Curt Knox said.
(6) At one point Bannon attempted to put his left hand on Priebus’s knee, only for Priebus to curtly brush him off.
(7) I was surprised by the soundman's impatient intrusiveness and yet more surprised as I stood just off set, beside the faux-newsroom near the pseudo-researchers who appear on camera as pulsating set dressing, when the soundman yapped me to heel with the curt entitlement of Idi Amin's PA.
(8) The unknowability of the Holocaust was famously, if inadvertently, expressed by the guard at Auschwitz who curtly told Primo Levi: “There is no why here.” We cannot in the end explain the Holocaust: it is beyond explanation.
(9) The Red Sox battled their way back from the edge of playoff elimination via back-to-back blown saves off of Mariano Rivera , two walk-off hits from David Ortiz and a game six pitching performance by a hobbled Curt Schilling.
(10) The history of asepsis is closely connected with the name of Curt Schimmelbusch.
(11) Oakland pitching coach Curt Young has a brief conference to see if they should put Miguel Cabrera on intentionally with first base open.
(12) After all, they had a stating pitcher rotation that featured Pedro Martinez, only a few years removed from the most dominant stretches any starting pitcher has had in baseball history, and a newly signed Curt Schilling, who was second only to an unworldly Johann Santana in that year's Cy Young voting.
(13) Edmund finishes his rutting (that's rutting ) with a curt "yes", a scene made worse only by the speed with which Julia Davis 's Dorothy enters the room, offering "bubbly milk".
(14) In the last few days Boyle has given more than 60 interviews, but seems to be still free of media savvy and professional coaching; her short and curt answers a mark of her no-nonsense approach to life.
(15) Yet his manner and tone suggested the opposite, along with the curtness of the response.
(16) Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has found a new appreciation for his very “beautiful” son and sees no problem marveling at the attractiveness of underage girls.
(17) Updated at 4.27am BST 3.27am BST Asked what he would do as president, Mitt Romney starts to list his achievements as governor of Massachusetts, until Lehrer cuts his off with a curt "But what would you do as president?"
(18) He illustrates his point, showing how to sip and then curtly nod.
(19) With the curt, and blistering, announcement of his decision to file for divorce from Wendi Murdoch, the young woman he met when she was 28 and working for Star TV, his company in Hong Kong, another upheaval begins.
(20) No one actually mentioned the word divorce so early in the piece but when you’ve got one sailing boat, five days of unseasonably appalling conditions and two captains overinflating their sailing experience and underreporting their bossiness, that’s the threat lurking behind every curt instruction.
Hurt
Definition:
(n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
(n.) A husk. See Husk, 2.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hurt
(v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
(v. t.) To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.
(v. t.) To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(2) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(3) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
(4) No one was seriously hurt but the road was closed north and south at 2.15am, and police have asked drivers to find alternatives.
(5) My unreliable BlackBerry was hurting business," she said.
(6) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(7) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
(8) In the latest survey to suggest that struggles in the eurozone and geopolitical tensions are hurting exporters, the CBI said manufacturing was the weakest part of the economy in the three months to October.
(9) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
(10) Here's what you need to know Read more Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Krugman, a renowned columnist at the New York Times , predicted the slowing Chinese economy would hurt Australia, but said the country should not get “too hysterical” about it.
(11) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
(12) It hurts indigenous Irish businesses whose main trade links are with the UK.
(13) A long spell of ultra-low interest rates has not driven a rise in inequality in the UK, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has said, rebuffing criticism that central bank policy had hurt some households.
(14) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
(15) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(16) Giving power to people – that’s at the heart of what I’m trying to do.” He said the Liberal Democrats had made “serious mistakes” which had hurt them in Thursday’s election, during which the party won eight seats, compared with 57 in 2010.
(17) There was too much hurt and uncontrolled anger when she was in the superior position with the kind of man who could not meet her dependency needs.
(18) Kashyap also told MPs about that weakness in banks across the EU could hurt major players in the UK.
(19) Brown runs four yards, but on that play Stanley Havill gets hurt.
(20) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Lang , professor of food policy at London's City University, said there were deeper structural issues to global food market price rises that politicians were not taking seriously and which were hurting the poor disproportionately.