Meanings
plural brusqueries · alternative brusquery
- countableuncountableBrusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
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.21 more example
“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 no notice of this.
1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth
Origin
- Frenchbrusquerie
- Frenchbrusquerie
- Englishbrusquerie
Borrowed from French brusquerie.
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