Definitions
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- adjective
comparative form ofbrusque : morebrusque
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Examples
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Indeed, the Democratic party's most honest moment Tuesday night came not in Webb's brusque words but in the Democrats' brusquer body language.
Public servant v. Military Commander Glenn Greenwald 2007
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Indeed, the Democratic party's most honest moment Tuesday night came not in Webb's brusque words but in the Democrats' brusquer body language.
Archive 2007-01-01 Glenn Greenwald 2007
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An associated question is why Israeli Jews are so much brusquer than American Jews, even New Yorkers.
Archive 2005-10-16 Steve Sailer 2005
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An associated question is why Israeli Jews are so much brusquer than American Jews, even New Yorkers.
Does Islam make its adherents violent? Steve Sailer 2005
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Or were the "Oriental" Jews who came to Israel from Islamic countries brusquer than the Ashkenazim from Europe?
Does Islam make its adherents violent? Steve Sailer 2005
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Or were the "Oriental" Jews who came to Israel from Islamic countries brusquer than the Ashkenazim from Europe?
Archive 2005-10-16 Steve Sailer 2005
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Georgina, dumpier and still brusquer than Marina, the eldest son, a bank-clerk who was something of a dandy and did not waste civility on little girls; and lastly there were two boys, slightly younger than Laura, black-haired, pug-nosed, pugnacious little creatures, who stood in awe of their father, and were all the wilder when not under his eye.
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It was as if from the wide living room on the first level a hand had moved slowly, shaping the next steps by a sustained touch, then had stopped, had continued in separate movements, each shorter, brusquer, and had ended, torn off, remaining somewhere in the sky.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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Her methods would become something much brusquer and more direct.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 Various 1898
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Olive's engagement had been broken off by too violent means, and nothing was more against her nature than (to use her own expression) _brusquer les choses_.
Muslin 1892
bilby commented on the word brusquer
A rude, itinerant musician.
December 29, 2007