Bluntly
['blʌntli]
Definition
(adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
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Examples
- To put it bluntly, Miss Addams let her impatience get the better of her wisdom. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am glad to hear that you can ask it, said the reddleman bluntly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Why, said Miss Ophelia, bluntly, I suppose you think your servants are human creatures, and ought to have some rest when they are tired. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Upon my word, Madam, Mr. Clump now said bluntly, I won't answer for her life if she remains locked up in that dark room. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Don't you be afeared o' that, sir, replied Gurt bluntly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I asked bluntly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Agustín asked bluntly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I was a little heated, I suppose, by feeling that he had doubted me, and I went on bluntly, without waiting to hear him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I must say that I am rather disappointed in our London consultant, said Colonel Ross, bluntly, as my friend left the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am, he said bluntly, and encouraged himself to wonder, superciliously, what would come next. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, want to read it? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Dr. Sprague said at once bluntly to the group assembled when he entered, I go for Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have not yet been pained by finding any excessive talent in Middlemarch, said Lydgate, bluntly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- See here, Jane, he said bluntly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It don't agree with YOU,' returned Mr Riderhood, bluntly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The French imperialists were bluntly given the alternative of war with the United States or clearing out of America. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That is what I want her to tell you, said Fred, bluntly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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