Historical clue formulations

• Like barked orders — 2025-12-17
• Terse — 2024-01-26
• To the point — 2020-02-01
• Short — 2017-09-23
• Short but not necessarily sweet — 2017-08-12
• Terse — 2016-04-05
• Clipped — 2014-04-05
• Laconic — 2012-08-11
• Short — 2009-08-14
• Terse to the point of rudeness — 2008-06-16
• Short-spoken — 2007-11-18
• Hardly windy — 2007-01-26
• Abrupt — 2006-04-24
• Brusque — 2002-08-28
• Brusque — 2002-04-17
• Abrupt — 2001-09-03
• Short — 2001-04-06
• Rudely abrupt — 1999-01-26
• Rudely terse — 1997-10-30
• Brusque — 1996-09-18
• Brusque — 1995-06-02
• Snippy — 1995-01-15