Use "curtness" in a sentence

1. The curtness of his response suggested that further questions along this line of enquiry would be unwelcome

2. at the curtness of the response and pushed his plate

3. "Well, what?" she scowled in reaction to his curtness

4. said, with the nearest approach to curtness it was in her nature to assume

5. Giselle's short answers, prompted by fearful caution, drove her beside herself by their curtness that resembled disdain

6. The curtness of his tone and his refusal struck Mr

7. He was unpleasantly impressed by a certain coldness, even curtness, one might almost say severity in their manner