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Brusqueness

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brusque also brusk  (brsk)
adj.
Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt. See Synonyms at gruff.
[French, lively, fierce, from Italian brusco, coarse, rough, from Late Latin brscum, perhaps blend of Latin rscus, butcher's broom, and Late Latin brcus, heather; see briar1.]
brusquely adv.
brusqueness n.
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Noun1.brusqueness - an abrupt discourteous manner
abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness
rudeness, discourtesy - a manner that is rude and insulting
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He came home with his manners a good deal improved; he had lost his surliness and brusqueness, and was rather pleasantly soft and smooth, now; he was furtively, and sometimes openly, ironical of speech, and given to gently touching people on the raw, but he did it with a good-natured semiconscious air that carried it off safely, and kept him from getting into trouble.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
He had felt his pulse quicken a trifle at the business manager's brusqueness, and upon him he kept an alert eye, for it was in that gentleman's trousers pocket that he divined the TRANSCONTINENTAL'S ready cash was reposing.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Ogg's; and he was almost fierce in his brusqueness when any one asked him a question about his son.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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