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Bluntness   /blˈəntnəs/   Listen
noun
Bluntness  n.  
1.
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; lack of sharpness. "The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles."
2.
Abruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech."





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"Bluntness" Quotes from Famous Books



... nose dive outa there," Johnny told her with terrific bluntness. "I'm in a hurry. I want to make Tucson ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... said Wilson, with irritated bluntness, "if you knew the entire scheme instead of only ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... the army, and does not wish to tamper with the service or play any tricks with it. It is curious to see the working and counterworking of his real opinions and principles with his false position, and the mixture of bluntness, facility and shrewdness, discretion, levity and seriousness, which, colouring his mind and character by turns, make up the strange compound of his ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... Terry, with a brutal bluntness unworthy of a Celt. He can be very irritating sometimes; but at this moment he was looking so extremely handsome and devil-may-care, that my desire to punch his head dissolved as I glared at him. Could any ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... was too able a man not to find it. In the five years that he had spent in the celebrated University of Lugenmaulberg, the medical theory had changed twenty-five times, and, thanks to this solid education, the doctor had a firmness of principle which nothing could shake. He had the frankness and bluntness of a soldier, it was said; he swore at times, even with ladies, a rudeness which left him at liberty always to be of the same mind with the stronger, and to demand a fee for having no opinion. The queen had fallen into ...
— Laboulaye's Fairy Book • Various


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