Usually means: Abruptly brief and unfriendly manner.
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  1. curtly: Merriam-Webster
  2. curtly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curtly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curtly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Curtly, curtly: Wordnik
  6. curtly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. curtly: Wiktionary
  8. Curtly, curtly: Dictionary.com
  9. curtly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Curtly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Curtly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. curtly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. curtly: Rhymezone
  14. Curtly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. curtly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. curtly: FreeDictionary.org
  17. curtly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. curtly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a curt manner; tersely, almost rudely.

Similar:
short, shortly, brusquely, tersely, discourteously, uncivilly, sharply, crudely, cuttingly, rough, more...

Types:
rudely, abruptly, bluntly, tersely, more...

Phrases:
Curtly Ambrose, curtly abrupt, say curtly, speak curtly, more...

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Similar:
short, shortly, brusquely, tersely, discourteously, uncivilly, sharply, crudely, cuttingly, rough, more...

Types:
rudely, abruptly, bluntly, tersely, more...

Phrases:
Curtly Ambrose, curtly abrupt, say curtly, speak curtly, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     gunmetal,     onyx, more...



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