blunt

Example Sentences

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Asked about them, he was blunt: He is “not running a charity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The blunt answer is to take taxable distributions when you feel like it.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Professor Chris Lintott of Oxford, co-host of The Sky at Night, was blunt: "The artistic value of the images returned from Artemis and its crew is significant, but their scientific value is limited."

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The heat, if present, is one-note — a blunt instrument rather than a chorus.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Thus he had got a blunt dismissal from Vemish and a bland one from Ismay, and he wondered at what he had been told about the kindly ways of the East Reach.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin