brusquerie

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French brusquerie.

Noun

brusquerie (countable and uncountable, plural brusqueries)

  1. Brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
    • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth:
      “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.
    • 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

Noun

brusquerie m (plural brusqueries)

  1. brusqueness

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