bluff
adjective
good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken.
bluffly
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a word derived from
bluff.
Example Sentences
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To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic of an heretical age, a humorless megalomaniac.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Look here, sir,” cried the young man bluffly.
From The Mynns' Mystery by George Manville Fenn
That evening, however, Lois sent for Leverich, who was evidently disquieted, though bluffly and rather irritatingly making light of her fears; he seemed to be both a little reluctant and a little contemptuous.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
“Oh, that’s how they struck you!” he answered, bluffly.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
Do you mean to say, Madam?" demanded the old gentleman, bluffly, "that I am to tell them you are married?
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
