How To Use Bluntness In A Sentence
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`Your own position, if you'll forgive my bluntness, could be a great deal unhappier than mine if he isn't stopped quickly.
PROSECUTOR
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Would he, too, have judged him with that eugenic executioner's bluntness?
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Pardon my bluntness but neither of you is a spring lamb anymore.
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But his strange ways to dress and his undiplomatic bluntness made him many enemies.
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Instead, they take up those weapons in the male armoury more befitting of their glabrous state: candour, bluntness, directness, scepticism.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness.
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YOU, for instance, would not care (pray pardon my bluntness) to unrobe yourself before the public eye; and in the same way, the poor man does not like to be pried at or questioned concerning his family relations, and so forth.
Poor Folk
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His bluntness is softened by a naturally upbeat demeanour and a notable lack of self-importance.
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Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had been brought up in the most aristocratic circles.
War and Peace
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Benton looked about the table and, with characteristic bluntness, said, ‘Who are all these people?’
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Miss Sheldon, I have wondered if it were possible that you could be like your picture -- and you are," he returned with true sailorly bluntness.
Gold Out of Celebes
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the bluntness of a Yorkshireman
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Instead, they take up those weapons in the male armoury more befitting of their glabrous state: candour, bluntness, directness, scepticism.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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His impolitic bluntness ultimately got the best of him.
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If that sort of bluntness piques your interest, then the debut LP from Milwaukee's finest is made for you.
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But there is, in many of its aspects, a confrontational bluntness that ensures relegation to the peripheries.
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A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen.