clipped
characterized by quick, terse, and clear enunciation.
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How to use clipped in a sentence
He’s stocky, with a shaved head, and a clipped but sympathetic manner.
Denton, who speaks in the clipped cadence of the Oxford-educated Brit he is, has built quite a castle.
The Gospel According to Nick Denton—What Next For The Gawker Founder? | Lloyd Grove | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe caught the first round in his thin and neatly clipped beard, right under the jaw.
Bicycle riders are prudent to fear being clipped by a passing car.
Ebola, ISIS, the Border: So Much to Fear, So Little Time! | Gene Robinson | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBrosnan, 61, has a close-clipped beard, and tufty salt-and-pepper hair.
Pierce Brosnan’s Life After Bond: From Action Hero to Losing His Daughter to Cancer | Tim Teeman | July 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is a creepy sound, inhumanly high-pitched and strangely clipped and emphatic: “S-s-eeg maheevoh s-s-speeree.”
"I clipped it from last night's San Francisco Bulletin," the latter explained quietly.
He hesitated, and a wave of dark colour flooded his face up to the roots of his close-clipped hair.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdOnly the upper part is shaved, or clipped to the skin, the long winter coat being left on the legs and half-way up the body.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. StreetI clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)He must have slipped behind a ragged old yew which had once been clipped and trimmed to look like a chess-king.
The Talking Horse | F. Anstey
British Dictionary definitions for clipped
/ (klɪpt) /
(of speech or voice) abrupt and distinct
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