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- r in a tart manner
`Never mind your immortal soul,' she said tartly
- During the primary she tartly dismissed canon law as an "old set of rules that are invoked when somebody wants to invoke them, and ignored when someone wants to ignore them.
- Cautious as ever, he criticized Japan's decision to join the Axis powers and commented tartly on the army's bogging down in China.
- In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of .