Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being brusk; a rude, abrupt, or blunt manner.
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- noun The state of being
brusk
Etymologies
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Examples
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"There they are -- waiting for you on the porch," he said, rather subdued it would seem by her bruskness.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
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"I feel that we have exhausted this subject," answered the Millionaire with the bruskness of a man whose nerves have worn thin; with the menace, too, of one who, having divorced his first wife, would divorce the second on small provocation.
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For, despite Mrs. Henry Sherwood's bruskness and masculine appearance,
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Winn was there for her, just as he had been on the Schatz Alp; his eyes looked the same, and the intentional bruskness which he put into his voice was quite insufficient to hide its eagerness.
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On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart.
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Within a week there was a deep line between Philip's brows and a return to some of his original bruskness of speech and manner.
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Flint had been direct and business-like almost to the point of bruskness.
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"No," with a bruskness which was startling by comparison with her cheeriness upstairs.
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"Quite right!" said Dion, with firmness, almost with bruskness.
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He was totally unaware of the bruskness of such a question asked of a woman whom he had never seen before.
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