单词 | brusqueness |
释义 | brusquenessn. The quality of being brusque or off-handed; bluntness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > curtness or brusqueness abruptness1591 snappishness1598 bluntness1608 cuttedness1622 briskness1668 bluntishness1691 snappinga1734 brusquerie1752 off-handedness1823 brusqueness1859 bluffness1863 curtness1882 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. vii. 137 Their sensitiveness is shocked by his brusqueness. 1884 Roe in Harper's Mag. June 92/1 Kindness, and..girlish brusqueness were..equally blended. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1859 |
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