bluntness

Example Sentences

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His bluntness is something that Benito Rubino, a 21-year-old volunteer with the campaign, likes.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

As the guarantors of European security, U.S. officials have long prodded European politicians on various issues—but usually behind closed doors and rarely with the bluntness of Trump’s diplomats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“Squid Game,” for all its bluntness, tries to hold up a mirror to the real world, where a cursory look around lets us know how little society values the lives of women and children.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

A lot of people “don’t really understand what he did,” Spencer said with characteristic bluntness in another interview on the eve of a 2011 presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

Nel smiled, slighdy, at the bluntness she had forgotten.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison