brusque

At first he thought that Dirk was the cause of the disaster, and he was needlessly brusque with him.

"I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency," replied Boris, betraying neither annoyance at the prince's brusque manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance.

His keen grey eye, impersonal and brusque, flashed upon her half impatiently.

Any mention of her `works' always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now.

It almost reminded one of the proverb, "Invite a man to your table, and soon he will place his feet upon it." Even to Polina he was brusque almost to the point of rudeness.

Among the men of Philip's year were three or four who were past their first youth: one had been in the Navy, from which according to report he had been dismissed for drunkenness; he was a man of thirty, with a red face, a brusque manner, and a loud voice.

Marilla, brusque and tearless, pecked Anne's cheek and said she supposed they'd hear from her when she got settled.

His manners had been brusque, and his words had been few.

And ever after his manner with friend and foe alike was rude and brusque.

But Leslie was brusque and curt when Anne thanked her, and again the latter felt thrown back upon herself.

This woman with her reckless life, her odd fascination, her brusque hatred of affectations, was a constant torment to him.

A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.