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English
Etymology
From terse + -ly.
Adverb
tersely (comparative more tersely, superlative most tersely)
- In a brief, concise, or to the point manner.
2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
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In a brief, concise, or to the point manner
- Bulgarian: кратко (bg) (kratko), сбито (bg) (sbito)
- German: knapp (de), prägnant (de), gedrängt (de), konzis (de)
- Italian: chiaramente (it), concisamente (it), succintamente (it), brevemente (it), sinteticamente (it), puntualmente (it)
- Latin: astrictē
- Macedonian: кра́тко (krátko)
- Russian: кра́тко (ru) (krátko), сжа́то (ru) (sžáto), лакони́чно (ru) (lakoníčno), ёмко (ru) (jómko)
- Swedish: koncist (sv), kortfattat (sv), kärnfullt (sv)
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