brusquerie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brusquerie
First recorded in 1750–55; from French brusque + -erie; see origin at brusque ( def. ), -ery ( def. )
Example Sentences
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It was evident that, though not entirely without alloy, the feeling of satisfaction was uppermost as he strode from the room with all the brusquerie with which he had entered it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
In manner he was very straight to the point and downright, but it was not the downrightness which in nineteen cases out of twenty degenerates into mere brusquerie.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
"No, I cannot," returns he with a brusquerie foreign to him.
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
Because of these things, he sometimes shocked and startled her with sporadic demonstrations of the brusquerie into which he withdrew when he felt too potential an impulse urging him to the other extreme.
From The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck
She has some good traits hidden under her brusquerie, and when you know her better you will excuse her rudeness.”
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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