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- adjective
comparative form ofabrupt : moreabrupt
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Examples
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His muse-daemon was a kinky spirit, demanding abrupter rhythms and ever more bizarre word-choices.
Proudly Defying Description James Parker 2010
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They seem to me noble and beautiful in themselves, and as truly artistic, if not as theatrical, as any abrupter catastrophe could be.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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They seem to me noble and beautiful in themselves, and as truly artistic, if not as theatrical, as any abrupter catastrophe could be.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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That is why, during the troubled Middle Ages when the oscillations of national and individual life were yet abrupter -- when, therefore, that classical quality of temperance was more than ever at a discount -- the Bible took so firm a hold upon you.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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Rome and Naples, he might have heard things that would have brought the negotiations at the Consulta to an abrupter close one way or the other.
The World Decision Robert Herrick 1903
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As they approached the summit of the mountain the path took abrupter turns, and was crossed in numberless places by the channels of winter avalanches, which had mown down great pines as if they had been blades of grass.
The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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Meanwhile, the vast dense masses of white cloud gathered below them, resting here and there in the hollows of the mountains like gigantic walls and bastions, and leaning against the abrupter face of the precipice in one great unbroken barrier of opaque, immaculate, impenetrable pearl.
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They seem to me noble and beautiful in themselves, and as truly artistic, if not as theatrical, as any abrupter catastrophe could be.
John Gabriel Borkman Henrik Ibsen 1867
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The only modifying circumstance to the geologist is, that though the sandstone beds run continuously along the cliff for miles together, distinct as the white bands in a piece of onyx, the intervening beds of shale are swarded over, save where we here and there see them laid bare in some abrupter acclivity or deeper water-course.
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On the way up, keeping to the steeper and abrupter route, one catches sight of the monks’ garden — a little paradise with vines, beehives, onions, lettuces, cabbages, marigolds to colour the risotto with, and a little plot of great luxuriant tobacco plants.
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