Thesaurus / bluntness
other words for bluntness
MOST RELEVANT
- disrespect
- acrimony
- asperity
- audacity
- barbarity
- boldness
- boorishness
- brass
- cheek
- coarseness
- crudeness
- crudity
- discourtesy
- disdain
- effrontery
- grossness
- harshness
- impertinence
- impudence
- incivility
- insolence
- intrusiveness
- irritability
- misbehavior
- nerve
- officiousness
- shamelessness
- sharpness
- tactlessness
- ungraciousness
- unkindness
- vulgarity
- bad manners
- unmannerliness
opposites of bluntness
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Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, was more blunt.
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The blunt instrument of fiscal policy isn’t likely to keep everyone afloat for much longer.
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That unsparing country bluntness—don't you think it's perfectly delightful?
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She would do what she could to curb her father's uncompromising bluntness of speech, and would keep him off dangerous topics.
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"I'd like to take up that loan and save the rest of the year's interest, Deacon Rowley," stated Mayo, with sailorly bluntness.
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Sedgett took his bluntness as a matter to be endured for the honour of hob-a-nobbing with a gentleman.
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Dr. Johnson has recorded the long list of his infirmities with an almost chilling bluntness; but, alas!
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WORDS RELATED TO BLUNTNESS
- bluntness
- candor
- confidence
- conscientiousness
- equity
- evenhandedness
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- frankness
- genuineness
- goodness
- honor
- impeccability
- incorruptibility
- integrity
- justness
- loyalty
- morality
- openness
- outspokenness
- plainness
- principle
- probity
- rectitude
- reputability
- responsibility
- right
- scrupulousness
- self-respect
- sincerity
- soundness
- straightforwardness
- straightness
- trustiness
- trustworthiness
- uprightness
- veracity
- virtue
- bluntness
- candor
- confidence
- conscientiousness
- equity
- evenhandedness
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- frankness
- genuineness
- goodness
- honor
- honorableness
- impeccability
- integrity
- justness
- loyalty
- morality
- openness
- outspokenness
- plainness
- principle
- probity
- rectitude
- reputability
- responsibility
- right
- scrupulousness
- self-respect
- sincerity
- soundness
- straightforwardness
- straightness
- trustiness
- trustworthiness
- uprightness
- upstandingness
- veracity
- virtue
- acrimony
- asperity
- audacity
- bad manners
- barbarity
- bluntness
- boldness
- boorishness
- brass
- cheek
- coarseness
- crudeness
- crudity
- discourtesy
- disdain
- disrespect
- effrontery
- grossness
- harshness
- impertinence
- impudence
- incivility
- insolence
- intrusiveness
- irritability
- misbehavior
- nerve
- officiousness
- shamelessness
- sharpness
- tactlessness
- ungraciousness
- unkindness
- unmannerliness
- vulgarity
- bluntness
- candor
- confidence
- conscientiousness
- equity
- evenhandedness
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- frankness
- genuineness
- goodness
- honor
- honorableness
- impeccability
- incorruptibility
- integrity
- justness
- loyalty
- morality
- openness
- outspokenness
- plainness
- principle
- probity
- rectitude
- reputability
- responsibility
- right
- scrupulousness
- self-respect
- sincerity
- soundness
- straightforwardness
- straightness
- trustiness
- trustworthiness
- uprightness
- veracity
- virtue
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.