Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
brusque .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abrupt discourteous manner
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Examples
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Perhaps her brusqueness was an attempt to dispel the memory of that embarrassing incident that hung between them.
The Unforgiven Patricia MacDonald 1981
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The very same people who complain about Franken's "brusqueness" have no problem doing the same, along with outright lies, when it serves them politically.
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A server hurriedly picks up a tray, and in the brusqueness of the movement an orange segment falls from the plate to the floor.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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He had felt his pulse quicken a trifle at the business manager's brusqueness, and upon him he kept an alert eye, for it was in that gentleman's trousers pocket that he divined the TRANSCONTINENTAL'S ready cash was reposing.
Chapter 33 2010
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Service is friendly – not the typical apple-wine pub brusqueness.
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A server hurriedly picks up a tray, and in the brusqueness of the movement an orange segment falls from the plate to the floor.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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"What do you want?" demanded, in Hawaiian, with a brusqueness and sternness they knew were put on.
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Decked in tight jeans and T-shirts with Italian print, they emitted a cool, confident brusqueness as they marched through the rusted door: their gateway to pork products, alcohol, and easy sex.
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The brusqueness of the voice even emphasized the tenderness.
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Decked in tight jeans and T-shirts with Italian print, they emitted a cool, confident brusqueness as they marched through the rusted door: their gateway to pork products, alcohol, and easy sex.
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