the curtness
31discourtesy — noun these parents seemed unfazed by the discourtesy of their children Syn: rudeness, impoliteness, bad manners, incivility, disrespect, ungraciousness, churlishness, boorishness, ill breeding, uncouthness, crassness; insolence, impudence,… …
32churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
33curt — [kʉrt] adj. [L curtus: see SHORT] 1. Archaic short or shortened 2. brief, esp. to the point of rudeness; terse or brusque [a curt reply] SYN. BLUNT curtly adv. curtness n …
34brusk — adjective marked by rude or peremptory shortness try to cultivate a less brusque manner a curt reply the salesgirl was very short with him • Syn: ↑brusque, ↑curt, ↑short • Similar to: ↑ …
