bluff
adjective
good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken.
bluffness
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a word derived from
bluff.
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
His manner is frank to the point of bluffness.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
