Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being brusk
"Why didn't you send for me at once?" asked the older man with increasing bruskness.
1912, Vaughan Kester, The Just and the Unjust2 more examples
On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart.
1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)When he had eaten, hungrily and in silence, responding to the mildly ironical sociability of his fellows with a brevity which only his soft voice saved from bruskness, he unrolled his new bed and lay down with not a thought for the part he was playing.
1904, B. M. Bower, The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
Origin
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