brusquelyadv.
In a brusque manner; off-handedly.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adverb] > curtly or brusquely
cuttedly1530
snappishly1548
snappingly1567
bluntly1579
brusquely1671
bluffly1794
shortlya1817
curtly1866
offhandishly1926
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 85 Our Lord..doth bruskly decline, to be so much as an amicable trister.
1842 E. B. Barrett Some Acct. Greek Christian Poets in Athenæum 26 Feb. 190/3 She..rather brusquely proposes their mutual marriage.
1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. II. xx. 232 The man refused most brusquely.
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adv.1671- to take at no reputation
- to take at or in scorn
- to take at rebound
- to take at the bound
- to take at the first bound
- to take at the rebound
- to take at worst
- to take at worth
- to take au grand sérieux
- to take away
- to take away every knot in the bulrush
- to take aworth
- to take back
- to take bad
- to take before the bound
- to take beginning
- to take benefit of
- to take block
- to take boat
- to take bog
- to take boggle
- to take boldness
- to take borrowing
- to take bread and salt
- to take breath