Curt

He gave me a curt answer.

She is curt.

Don't you think it's rude to give people such a curt reply like that?

Krista's curt, businesslike tone put off her clients at the maternity ward, especially on their special days.

Marilla really did not know how to talk to the child, and her uncomfortable ignorance made her crisp and curt when she did not mean to be.

He's always had curt ways.

Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]

Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.