shortly

  1. Adverb.  In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
  2. Adverb.  In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
  3. Adverb.  In an irritable ("short") manner.

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