brusque

equivalents

discourteous

synonyms

Spartan

abbreviated

abridged

abrupt

abrupt

aggressive

aposiopestic

artless

bearish

beastly

bluff

bluff

blunt

blunt

brash

brief

broad

candid

cavalier

churlish

clipped

close

close-tongued

closemouthed

compact

compendious

compressed

concise

condensed

contracted

crisp

crusty

curt

cut

direct

discourteous

docked

downright

dumb

economical of words

elliptic

epigrammatic

explicit

forthright

frank

frankhearted

free

free-speaking

free-spoken

free-tongued

etymologically-related-terms

brusquely

brusqueness

same-contexts

abrupt

boisterous

brisk

businesslike

contemptuous

curt

discourteous

dismissive

emphatic

gruff

imperious

peremptory

petulant

surly

testy

unceremonious

uncivil

ungracious

unkind

vehement

rhymes

Rusk

busk

cusk

dusk

husk

lusk

musk

rusk

tusk