0 using few words, sometimes in a way that seems rude or unfriendly:
"Storm coming," he said tersely.
"Yes, I do," he said tersely in answer to the first question of the debate - whether he thought he could "do a better job" than the president.
Both have issued tersely worded statements expressing ''concern''.
The Vatican press office issued its own medical bulletin every few days, tersely describing his continued improvement.
Mr Blair replied tersely: 'No, I won't.'
For reasons of space, these suggestions will be stated somewhat tersely and without elaboration.
The melody for this song is compact, tersely syllabic.
The reason, tersely put, is that history is not self-interpreting and even at its most obliging it delivers to us concepts or principles that are not self-defining or self-limiting.
