• Brusque
• Brusque in manner
• Curt
• Discourteously curt
• Exceedingly sudden
• Hasty
• Precipitate
• Precipitous
• Rather sudden
• Short
• Short-spoken
• Short, but not necessarily sweet
• Steeply inclined
• Sudden
• Surprisingly curt
• Unceremonious
• Unceremoniously curt
• Unexpected
• Without warning