brusqueness
Example Sentences
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His brusqueness was deliberate, a way “of presenting himself and covering up his actual feelings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Cárdenas and Padilla had tolerated Martinez’s brusqueness because she was one of them, even as underlings warned that she would eventually embarrass the group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
She picked up to be told with stunning brusqueness that Mara, their 19-year-old daughter, had been killed in a car accident.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Leigh, another of Seattle’s great actors, is a more distant presence here, with an aloof brusqueness that could be an 18-year-old’s lashing out or a 40-something’s entrenched protective mechanism.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
He was slight, smooth-skinned, shy-mannered, and wore the gold chain of a Foreteller, one of the Celibates, “I’m a friend of one who befriended you,” he said, with the brusqueness of the timid.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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