brusquerie

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From French brusquerie.

Noun

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brusquerie (countable and uncountable, plural brusqueries)

  1. 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

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Noun

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brusquerie m (plural brusqueries)

  1. brusqueness

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