abruptness
Example Sentences
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His bluntnesses and abruptnesses and coldnesses didn't mean that the compartments were "love-tight," as I'd fancied, but that they were already full to overflowing.
From The Motor Maid by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
But though one could see all its bulgings, round swells, and precipitous abruptnesses, it looked as much akin to the clouds as to solid earth and rock substance.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden
Would not their projectures and abruptnesses serve me as steps by which I might ascend in safety?
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
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