Brusqueness synonyms

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abruptness
Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
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curtness
The state of being curt
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gruffness
The characteristic or quality of being gruff
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shortness
(Uncountable) The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.
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Brusqueness Sentence Examples

  • "Are you well?" he asked with a brusqueness that caught her off guard.

  • As a minister of the crown Roland exhibited a bourgeois brusqueness of manner and a remarkable combination of political prejudice with administrative ability.

  • He does not, however, seem to have reciprocated the courtesy of his French hosts, but gave offence by the brusqueness of his manner, though his supercilious bearing, according to his biographer, Dr Paris, was to be ascribed less to any conscious superiority than to an "ungraceful timidity which he could never conquer."

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