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Recent Examples of brusqueness
With off-putting brusqueness, the acupuncturist sticks needles into my head and left leg, leaves the room—and appears to forget all about me.
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Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brusqueness
Noun
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This team has responded well to that bluntness.—
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But his departure — and the bluntness of Spurs’ attacks here — indicate the importance of the January window.—
Noun
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Some new retirees are caught off-guard by the abruptness of the transition from full-time work to a permanent vacation of sorts.—
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Monique’s penchant for forthrightness, almost to the point of abruptness, is what makes her reintegration to the cast fascinating already.—
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Luzzatto said the relative shortness of that term is scaring away capital.—
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February was deemed an appropriate time for a special observance of Black history not because of the shortness of the month, but instead to coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.—
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“Brusqueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brusqueness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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