staccato
Definition of abbreviation (noun) -
detached; having distinct breaks between successive tonesPart of speech:
AdjectiveExample sentences with this word:
The staccato gunfire was present every night in their neighborhood.
Gleaming French cars nosed along the cluttered roadway bearing corpulent Chinese and their bejewelled wives or concubines in their curtained interiors, and the staccato, unmelodious babble of the Cantonese dialect had entirely replaced the softer, sibilant tones of the Annamese language.
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