brusqueness
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He added that he regretted his brusqueness with her and other residents but needed rapid action to address fire risks and other dangers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023
She picked up to be told with stunning brusqueness that Mara, their 19-year-old daughter, had been killed in a car accident.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Wayne Federman, stand-up and professor at the University of South California, says the shift is just a natural part of comedy's evolution, and the deviation away from brusqueness isn't so new.
From BBC ● May 30, 2019
She spoke to him with the brusqueness of the former prosecutor she is.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018
From the very first I had been baffled by his brusqueness with the old man.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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This Is How I Roll
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The Hiding Place
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