Crossword-Solution: CURTEST
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CURTEST | anagram | CUTTERS, SCUTTER |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CURTEST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Least expansive | 1 answer |
| Least loquacious | 1 answer |
| Maximally short | 1 answer |
| Least polite | 2 answers |
| Least prolix | 2 answers |
| Most abrupt | 2 answers |
| Most snappish | 2 answers |
| Brusque | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURTEST (5)
Jeanne passed her arm through the newcomer's and with the curtest of nods to her late companion, disappeared through an open doorway.
Not once did he offend my taste and make my acute sense of self-respect shiver by appearing grateful for a recognition, or anxious to court it, though the curtest salute met his acknowledgement.
Lathrop I am sure will excuse me--I must get some letters off by post--" And with the curtest of bows she disappeared.
Therefore, it puzzled and confused Neergard to be overlooked where the gay world had been summoned with an accompanying blast from the public press; therefore he had gone to Rosamund with the curtest of hints; but he had remained, standing before her, checked, not condescending to irritation, but mentally alert to a new element of resistance which he had not expected--a new force, palpable, unlooked for, unclassified as yet in his schedule for his life's itinerary.
After we had been at M'Vini about six months, had shot everything worth shooting, and knew one another's funny stories off by heart, Frobisher and I grew bored with each other, hated in fact the sight, sound and mere propinquity of each other, and, shutting ourselves up in our separate huts, communicated only on occasions of the direct necessity, and then by the curtest of official notes.
Quotes with CURTEST (1)
But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it has not been more often adopted. To put it in its curtest form, my proposal is this: That we should not read historians, but history. Let us read the actual text of the times. Let us, for a year, or a month, or a fortnight, refuse to read anything about Oliver Cromwell except what was written while he was alive. There is plenty of material; from my own memor…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1980–2018).