If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way. Her tone of voice was curt `The matter is closed,' was the curt reply. = abrupt, brusque + curtly curt·ly `I'm leaving,' she said curtly. using very few words in a way that seems rude (curtus )
brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"