Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stupidly.
- Without sharpness or tenuity; obtusely: as, bluntly serrate.
- In a blunt manner; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility; in an abrupt, offhand, or curt manner; without circumlocution: as, to tell a man something bluntly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
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- adverb In a
blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a blunt direct manner
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Examples
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This one's about, well, a hotel for dogs, as the title bluntly suggests, but instead of Sandler's shrill barking and over-the-top gestures, we have the adorable and classy Emma Roberts (niece to Julia).
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Schiller once taught them a lesson when he reminded the petty tyrants of the Press of his time of what he called bluntly:
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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A vote for Prop. 23 is a vote to turn the lungs of poor children into a snack for dinosaurs, to put it in bluntly Hollywood-ish terms.
Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010
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A vote for Prop. 23 is a vote to turn the lungs of poor children into a snack for dinosaurs, to put it in bluntly Hollywood-ish terms.
Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010
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A couple months ago, my senator, Dick Durbin bluntly stated that the banks own Congress.
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A vote for Prop. 23 is a vote to turn the lungs of poor children into a snack for dinosaurs, to put it in bluntly Hollywood-ish terms.
Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010
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Without the self-canceling move into otherness via negation, philosophy's assignment, as Agamben puts it bluntly, is to imagine how a thing might be what it isn't.
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To put in bluntly, the thought of a billionaire genius who can sit in his lab and create an advanced suit like that, is simply ridiculous.
Will Iron Man’s Realism Clash with The Avengers Universe? | /Film 2008
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When looking at a disaster in the making speaking about it bluntly is not a fault.
Nothing But Greenlights « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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It's fun, but everyone talks with the same rat-a-tat-tat cynical where they clash with respect and bare fangs in bluntly factual ways.
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