What's the difference between curtly and curtsy?

Curtly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a curt manner.

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.

Curtsy


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
  • (2) The prime minister, Julia Gillard, who argues the Queen should be Australia's last monarch, and the chief minister, Katy Gallagher, the head of the Australian Capital Territory government, were questioned by reporters about why they had not curtsied when they greeted the Queen on her arrival.
  • (3) And superficial as it might seem, the fact that our prime minister didn't curtsy in front of the Queen , instead making some sort of strange bob motion, does say something.
  • (4) Meanwhile, the man whose tiny hand May held in hers (something even his wife won’t do ) as she helped him down a ramp – one of the several things Trump is reputedly terrified of – has been curtsying to the Saudi king .
  • (5) Nobody, as yet, has bowed or curtsied to them on the high street.
  • (6) If he doesn't actually curtsy it's only because chaps don't.
  • (7) During the garden party, most guests curtsied and bowed, although one Texan congressman apparently shouted at the monarch: "Hi-ya, Cousin George!"

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