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short-spoken

[shawrt-spoh-kuh n]
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adjective
  1. speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
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Origin of short-spoken

First recorded in 1860–65
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Examples from the Web for short-spoken

Historical Examples

  • He is a decent, bluff, short-spoken old chap, with his heart in his work.

    Max Carrados

    Ernest Bramah

  • I was trying to move the sofa at the moment and I was inclined to be short-spoken.

  • One may be naturally cold, short-spoken and stern, the other suave and gentle, yet both be equally good leaders.

    Manpower

    Lincoln Clarke Andrews

  • The next day he was as short-spoken as Bat Truxton had been the day before Hapgood had tempted him, as irritable.

    Under Handicap

    Jackson Gregory

British Dictionary definitions for short-spoken

short-spoken

adjective
  1. tending to be abrupt in speech
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