0 using few words, sometimes in a way that seems rude or unfriendly: --
"Storm coming," he said tersely.
I put it rather tersely, because it ought to be so put at this stage.
I regretted that it was necessary for him to do so, but his contribution was extremely valuable and most concisely and tersely put.
The case can be put simply and tersely.
That, put briefly and tersely, is the reason why they propose to make this change.
I am coming round to the opposite point of view, but he has given me the opportunity to make it more tersely.
If we are, as he tersely puts it, squealing at all it is because we are not protecting our shipping adequately.
It could not be put more tersely or more correctly.
It was done tersely and casually, and in a way which seemed to be quite ill-informed.
