brusqueadjective
uk/bruːsk/us/brʌsk/quick and rude in manner or speech:
His secretary was a little brusque with me.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brutal
- call a spade a spade idiom
- forward
- frank
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- not pull any/your punches idiom
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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brusquely
adverb uk/ˈbruːsk.li/us/ˈbrʌsk.li/
"I don't have time to deal with it today," she said brusquely.
brusqueness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbruːsk.nəs/us/ˈbrʌsk.nəs/