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
Johnson ducked questions with easy bluffness that politicians understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
His sturdy figure, healthy face, and a slight bluffness of manner reminded one more of his original profession than of the life and manners of a man of letters.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
