brusque
Example Sentences
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Tudor's brusque, plain speaking style got no more out of the Spurs squad than Frank's more empathetic approach.
From BBC
‘Of course everything’s all right,’ she says in her normal brusque voice, the spell broken.
From Literature
Dan leads the Seder in such a brusque way that his wife reflects, “on this night my husband is a control freak. That’s how he celebrates freedom from slavery.”
Every rendezvous he manages is different: A brusque businessman wants to see his mother, ostensibly because an important document is missing.
Organizers forbade several of their key moves as their brusque victories weren’t telegenic.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
