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brusquerie

brusquerie noun: brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.

Noun

brusquerie (countable and uncountable, plural brusqueries)

  1. Brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
    • “Yes? But then the Frenchman is a marquis, and the cleverer of the two,” remarked Polina imperturbably. “Is that so?” I repeated. “Yes; absolutely.” Polina was not at all pleased at my questions; I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the brusquerie of her answers. But I took...1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth
    • 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.1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.2

Forms of brusquerie

pluralbrusqueries
alternative formbrusquery

Origin of brusquerie

Borrowed from French brusquerie.

Questions about brusquerie

What does brusquerie mean?
Brusquerie means brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
What part of speech is brusquerie?
Brusquerie is a noun.
What is the plural of brusquerie?
The plural of brusquerie is brusqueries.

Words near brusquerie in the dictionary

  1. brusqued
  2. brusquely
  3. brusqueness
  4. brusquenesses
  5. brusquer
  6. brusquerie
  7. brusqueries
  8. brusquery
  9. brusques
  10. brusquest
  11. brusquing

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