brusquerie
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French brusquerie.
Noun
brusquerie (countable and uncountable, plural brusqueries)
- Brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.2:
- Dorothea looked straight before her, and spoke with cold brusquerie, very much with the air of a handsome boy, in amusing contrast with the solicitous amiability of her admirer.
French
Further reading
- “brusquerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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