in a word
Prepositional phrase
  1. Briefly; concisely; in short; to sum up.
    He was suspicious, standoffish, taciturn — in a word, hostile.
Translations
  • French: en un mot
  • Portuguese: numa palavra
  • Russian: одни́м сло́вом



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