Example Sentences

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Stu’s travails feed into his salty homilies about getting closer to God, delivered with Wahlberg’s usual bluffness.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022

Through these varying milieus we see the seeds of the men these boys will grow up to be: their bravery, their bluffness, their kindness and cruelty, their insecurities and tempers.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2016

Mr Prabowo deflected allegations of human-rights abuses with an air of military bluffness.

From Economist • Jul. 10, 2014

And he has been restored with great care, at much expense, in all his Victorian gloss and tearjerking bluffness.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, he was of strong and athletic build, and with a well-affected, good-humoured bluffness, he was able to push back the foremost aggressors without having recourse to any weapon.

From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram