(curtness)
61brevity — n 1. briefness, shortness, shortlivedness, transcience, impermanence, ephemerality, caducity. 2. conciseness, succinctness, curtness, terseness, lac onism; pithiness, pointedness, crispness, compactness, compression, compendiousness …
62churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
63discourtesy — n 1. rudeness, impoliteness, incivility, unmannerliness; inconsideration, tactlessness, disrespectfulness, misbehavior; ungraciousness, indecorum, uncourtliness, ungentlemanliness, hoyden ism; brashness, boldness, brazenness, insolence, impudence …
64ill humor — n bad mood, temper, huff, tiff, miff, pet, fume, pique, Inf. stew, Archaic. pucker; rage, passion; touchiness, testiness, thin skinnedness, fret fulness, petulance; irritability, curtness, tartness, sharpness; ill temper, irascibility,… …
65ill temper — n irascibility, waspishness, peevishness, spleen, bile, choler; crossness, crabbedness, crabbiness, crankiness, grouchiness, grumpiness; moodiness, sulkiness, gloominess, sullenness, moroseness; bitterness, acerbity, asperity, sourness,… …
66petulance — n 1. peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carpingness; irascibleness, irascibility, cholericness, ill temperedness, bad temper, spleen, spleenishness; crabbiness …
67roughness — n 1. coarseness, ruggedness, bumpiness, jaggedness, cragginess, cragginess; stoniness, rockiness; knottedness, nodosity, gnarledness; wrin kledness, nugosity, crinkledness, corrugation; lumpiness; irregularity, unevenness. 2. hairiness,… …
68rudeness — n 1. discourteousness, impoliteness, incivility, unmannerliness; inconsideration, tactlessness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, misbehavior; ungraciousness, indecorum, uncourtliness, ungentlemanliness, hoydenism; brashness, boldness, brazenness,… …
69spleen — n 1. petulance, peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carp ingness; irascibleness, irascibility, biliousness, cholericness; ill temperedness, bad temper,… …
70tartness — n 1. sharpness, sourness, acidity, acridness, acerbity; pungency, piquancy, bitterness, acidu lousness, harshness. 2. acrimony, causticity, asperity, mordancy, astrin gency, trenchancy; severity, harshness, austerity, sternness; spite,… …
