bluntness
Example Sentences
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“And we were all on the side of Vasily Grossman, who didn’t write messages. Bluntness looks ideological.”
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2019
To American Watchdog on Afghan Reconstruction, Bluntness Is a Weapon KABUL, Afghanistan — John F. Sopko is a 61-year-old former prosecutor who believes “embarrassing people works.”
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2013
Bluntness is of limited value in Washington, however, as Bernanke quickly found out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes an affected Simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Bluntness giveth it Being.
From An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Clifford, James L.
Bluntness and bare-faced Flattery Can never with the Court agree.
From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de
