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brusque
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  • When the Palestinian man rang them up, he was brusque and hurried.   (source)
    brusque = abrupt
  • Aline pushed past her brusquely and went into the living room.   (source)
    brusquely = abruptly (suddenly and quickly -- without taking the time to be friendly)
  • Kemper said brusquely, "Look here now, Colonel."   (source)
  • Dr. Annstrong stood up. He said brusquely: "No, a man doesn't die of a mere choking fit. Marston's death wasn't what we call a natural death."   (source)
  • "Awright," he said brusquely. "Gi'me that mouse! ... I ain't takin' it away jus' for meanness. That mouse ain't fresh, Lennie; and besides, you've broke it pettin' it."   (source)
    brusquely = abruptly
  • He said it brusquely to build himself up again.   (source)
    brusquely = abruptly (suddenly and quickly -- without taking the time to be friendly)
  • He came home with his manners a good deal improved; he had lost his surliness and brusqueness, and...   (source)
    brusqueness = abruptness (quickness without taking the time to be  friendly)
  • The brusque nurse arrives.†   (source)
  • After calling the warden's office to confirm that my visit had been properly scheduled, he finally admitted me, brusquely directing me to the small room where the visit would take place.†   (source)
  • Harry heard him say brusquely to the goblins, and Bagman hurried through the pub toward Harry, his boyish grin back in place.†   (source)
  • Through the closed door they heard the pencil woman speaking in her brusque way, then an embarrassed murmur that must have been Sticky's response.†   (source)
  • Sonny Seiler moved for a mistrial, but Judge Oliver brusquely denied it.†   (source)
  • She moved her hand brusquely across his line of vision, but he did not blink.†   (source)
  • Brusque, maternal.†   (source)
  • The local doctor was an old man, brusque and businesslike, though with kind eyes.†   (source)
  • I could not hear what they were saying inside, but I knew it would not be anything good since they had received Mom so coldly and treated me so brusquely.†   (source)
  • There lay nothing in between; they did not say as much, but their brusqueness implied it.†   (source)
  • Her husband brusquely waved away her comfort.†   (source)
  • "His son will succeed to the Eyrie and all its incomes," Robert said brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Er — yes," I said brusquely.†   (source)
  • Tamar was brusque.†   (source)
  • He tightened the hard-hat straps, striding brusquely to the door.†   (source)
  • Her eyes flashed as she shut the door brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," she said brusquely to Edward.†   (source)
  • At Hunt's brusque prodding the architects got to work.†   (source)
  • He looked, briefly, up to Mae, and nod ded brusquely.†   (source)
  • From the very first I had been baffled by his brusqueness with the old man.†   (source)
  • "Those letters were all written before the fire," she says brusquely.†   (source)
  • "You should go," he said brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Because the Edema Ruh make exceptionally poor students," he said brusquely.†   (source)
  • I said brusquely, and pointed to my mother-in-law by the Xerox, making endless copies of Amy's photo.†   (source)
  • "Good luck, son," Wells's father said, assuming his trademark brusqueness.†   (source)
  • He was cross at her arriving late and motioned her brusquely inside.†   (source)
  • "We have to go," he said brusquely.†   (source)
  • Despite his reputation for brusqueness, he made his proposal in a deferential manner.†   (source)
  • I'm expecting him to be brusque, but his hands are—not gentle, exactly, but not callous, either.†   (source)
  • "Ef you've got a substitute, you can put 'em on my looms," she said brusquely.†   (source)
  • I needed the radio to hear the weekend movie or anything on television, and to use down in the gym, but the officer who ran the commissary brusquely told me they were out of radios.†   (source)
  • Call said brusquely.†   (source)
  • The Jesuits, according to Paulus, had been treated so brusquely in so many places for their attempts to convert and transform, decapitated in Japan, disemboweled in the Horn of Africa, eaten alive in North America, crucified in Siam, drawn and quartered in England, thrown into the ocean off Madagascar, that the founders of our little experimental college thought they'd spare the landscape some of the bloodier emblems of the order's history.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, it is," she said brusquely.†   (source)
  • She gestured brusquely at the Geographica.†   (source)
  • The servants, ran about on orders from their brusque, anxious patron, who allowed for no delays in the execution of his wishes.†   (source)
  • The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.†   (source)
  • Hema's brusque "Hello" told him she was scowling.†   (source)
  • "I don't have time," I said, brusque and flat.†   (source)
  • It was answered with a short, brusque "Yes?"†   (source)
  • Diane drove brusquely, handling the car as though it needed to be taught a lesson.†   (source)
  • "The games are full, gentlemen," said a brusque voice with a French accent.†   (source)
  • Most of the people who opened the doors were polite but brusque and almost never friendly.†   (source)
  • There was a young, determined brusqueness in her voice and movements.†   (source)
  • Buto aga forden," shouted one of the knights brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Yes, as I must have a sponsor to put me forth," Fee says brusquely.†   (source)
  • "He's brusque, is Boyle, and sometimes that can be taken for unkindness, but he's not unkind as a rule."†   (source)
  • But before she could answer, her husband brusquely put down the phone.†   (source)
  • He is shivering Never hit it off with the guy not even before he is too brusque too all-knowing there is only one way to do everything only one main street.†   (source)
  • The clerk firmly told me no thanks and brusquely sent me away.†   (source)
  • Zooey looked up, brusquely, at his mother.†   (source)
  • Now she felt herself speaking with some irritation and feeling, and either what she said or the sudden brusque way she said it caused him to mutter a quick apology.†   (source)
  • Because you're a little, little girl, and … But with this Catherine exploded into a roar of angry tears, and brought both fists down into her plate, and Rufus, dum— founded, was hustled brusquely off to school.†   (source)
  • Accustomed though I was to him, the brusque words, his short manner, dashed the welcome from my lips.†   (source)
  • "What are you going to do when the family starts coming along?" asked Charlie brusquely, his matter-of-fact little blue eyes fixed on Dick.†   (source)
  • She saw how Romero avoided every brusque movement and saved his bulls for the last when he wanted them, not winded and discomposed but smoothly worn down.   (source)
    brusque = abrupt (sudden and quick)
  • "What is Dumbledore up to?" said Scrimgeour brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Here," said Kingsley brusquely to Mr Weasley, shoving a sheaf of parchment into his hand.†   (source)
  • "Not if we blow it up," says Gale brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Go ahead and look, then," he said brusquely.†   (source)
  • You'll be out in seven minutes if you forgive my brusqueness, okay?"†   (source)
  • Brusquely he dismisses her, and turns to thoughts of Rachel.†   (source)
  • Ser Hugh had been brusque and uninformative, and arrogant as only a new-made knight can be.†   (source)
  • She tossed it brusquely on a pile of clothes.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounded as brusque as usual, but it had another note in it, too — a touch of guilt.†   (source)
  • You've had an owl," said Ron brusquely the moment he walked in.†   (source)
  • "Come on," he said, his voice businesslike brusque, even.†   (source)
  • 'It's not Cho I want to talk to,' said Harry brusquely.†   (source)
  • I have to do something or I'll go crazy," said Eragon brusquely.†   (source)
  • Stenton nodded brusquely, as if looking to him for the go-ahead was unnecessary.†   (source)
  • 'I don't believe it,' said Phineas brusquely.†   (source)
  • Brynden thought a moment, then nodded a brusque agreement.†   (source)
  • Thirty-nine years this December,' said Professor McGonagall brusquely, snapping her bag shut.†   (source)
  • "Summon Jory to my chambers and tell your father to saddle my horse," Ned told him, too brusquely.†   (source)
  • He rose and gestured brusquely to the guards.†   (source)
  • "We would if we had to get out of here in a hurry," he said almost brusquely, going to the bureau.†   (source)
  • It was unusual for her to be so brusque.†   (source)
  • Alan tried to square the builder of this home with the brusque and bitter man he'd met.†   (source)
  • "We all know you made a mistake," he said brusquely.†   (source)
  • Well? he demanded, regaining his former brusque attitude.†   (source)
  • Mormont pawed through them brusquely, giving each no more than a glance and a grunt.†   (source)
  • We've all been to the doctor, we know about the brusque humiliations involved.†   (source)
  • The question, unintended, came out more brusquely than was politic.†   (source)
  • "Hide the bodies before anyone sees," he ordered, brusque and harsh.†   (source)
  • Keenan's sudden brusqueness startles me.†   (source)
  • "Normal procedure," Edward answered brusquely.†   (source)
  • Lord Tywin waved two fingers at her, a brusque dismissal.†   (source)
  • "Were you raised by your grandma?" she asked brusquely.†   (source)
  • He gives a small, brusque flick to his pants leg.†   (source)
  • Mimmi shut up, not sure how to interpret Salander's brusque dismissal.†   (source)
  • His answer would still have been no, but he might not have been so brusque.†   (source)
  • His voice was brusque and dry; but he had answered.†   (source)
  • But his voice was brusque now–angry, but also businesslike.†   (source)
  • It's because of the smell," Ferula said brusquely.†   (source)
  • Besides, you're a beauty," with tender brusqueness, "and a charmer that steals the hearts of men.†   (source)
  • His tone was brusque, his divine face arrogant.†   (source)
  • Ser Jacelyn met him at the gate, and raised his iron hand in brusque salute.†   (source)
  • Then he spoke in the brusque manner of an executive.†   (source)
  • Is she always so brusque? asked Saphira.†   (source)
  • Go to the city and buy me some candied papaya," she told him brusquely.†   (source)
  • Steelshanks Walton commanded Jaime's escort; blunt, brusque, brutal, at heart a simple soldier.†   (source)
  • He took a cup from Jon's tray, tried a swallow of wine, and gave a brusque nod of approval.†   (source)
  • Ser Meryn Trant seized Dontos by the arm and flung him brusquely away.†   (source)
  • He made a brusque gesture with his hand, and his men moved out of earshot.†   (source)
  • The senator will be in shortly," the maid said brusquely, leaving him alone.†   (source)
  • She laughed, in the same brusque, mirthless way.†   (source)
  • "I know your history, Ser Denys," the king said brusquely.†   (source)
  • "—pretends to power," the knight said brusquely.†   (source)
  • With a brusque movement of anger, she flicked the mat back to cover the words.†   (source)
  • "If you have proposals to make, make them," Stannis said brusquely, "or I will be gone."†   (source)
  • Years later, on her deathbed, she told me that Lord Tywin had refused us brusquely.†   (source)
  • He turned brusquely away from the window.†   (source)
  • "Go bugger yourself," the big outlaw replied brusquely.†   (source)
  • The boy had answered brusquely, not looking at him, "Didn't want to.†   (source)
  • "Jon Snow," the tallest of them said brusquely, "pull on your boots and come with us."†   (source)
  • He turned brusquely, leading the way down to the car, then glanced at Galt.†   (source)
  • Dagny turned brusquely and started away from them.†   (source)
  • He turned brusquely and started off, but stopped.†   (source)
  • "Where's your old man?" he asked with brusque jocularity.†   (source)
  • "We gave it up, it didn't pay," said Dick brusquely.†   (source)
  • He spoke brusquely, almost with brutality.†   (source)
  • "I must go," he says, and stands up, pushing back his chair, wiping his mouth brusquely, making a show of bustle, although in fact he has no appointment until the afternoon.†   (source)
  • From an ordinary man Jimmy would have found it brusque, even aggressive, but these people didn't go in for fancy language: they hadn't been taught evasion, euphemism, lily-gilding.†   (source)
  • If they'd been having a thing already they'd have been brusque and businesslike in public, they'd have avoided each other if anything; they'd have had quick and dirty trysts in grungy corners, weltering around in their own popped buttons and stuck zippers on the office carpet, chewing each other's ears in car parks.†   (source)
  • Kitsey had apologized more than once for Em's 'brusqueness' but this, in Hobie's phrase, took the proverbial cake.†   (source)
  • "Are they too tight?" he asked, his brusque tone frayed by a note of sympathy that made Clarke's chest ache.†   (source)
  • I asked the guards why he was in the cage in the first place, which prompted a brusque response: "Lifer.†   (source)
  • I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed.†   (source)
  • Brusquely they are awakened, then questioned by the one spy who speaks their language, though far from perfectly.†   (source)
  • I'm having an inch-long cut above my right eye stitched up by an extremely handsome junior doctor who is disappointingly brusque and businesslike.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounded brusque, but her face couldn't entirely hide the fact that she was pleased to see Mo.†   (source)
  • 'Bellatrix and her husband Rodolphus came in with Barty Crouch junior,' said Sirius, in the same brusque voice.†   (source)
  • She did not know if she had enough words, yet when she was done Khal Drogo spoke a few brusque sentences in Dothraki, and she knew he understood.†   (source)
  • His voice was strange, brusque.†   (source)
  • "I need to see Hobb about the Old Bear's supper," he announced brusquely, sliding Longclaw back into its scabbard.†   (source)
  • "Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her," the prince told him brusquely.†   (source)
  • Roose Bolton and Robett Glover both demanded the honor of battle command, the first brusquely, the second with a smile and a jest.†   (source)
  • "Drink," he said brusquely.†   (source)
  • Ned asked brusquely.†   (source)
  • Edward's brusque tone was not generous.†   (source)
  • The brusque dismissal did not sit well with Justin Massey, but he had no choice but to smile and withdraw.†   (source)
  • Nick Ruskin was brusque with her.†   (source)
  • The piece was intensely moving, a rapid patter of notes interrupted by brusque chords and a simmering dissonance.†   (source)
  • A brusque laugh shook Orik's chest.†   (source)
  • I asked brusquely.†   (source)
  • He growled a brusque command, and his drowned men seized the dead boy by his arms and legs to carry him above the tideline.†   (source)
  • Neither man would speak to him, though he knew they were no mutes; sometimes he heard them'exchange a few brusque words as the watch was changing.†   (source)
  • He dismissed my request brusquely.†   (source)
  • Chris MacAllen, the man dispatched so brusquely, was a local wastrel who could have used a good thrashing.†   (source)
  • At that moment a hand grabbed him roughly around the arm and a brusque voice demanded, 'Chaplain Shipman?'†   (source)
  • Though certainly a brusque greeting, it was not much more than he would have expected from a father--fathers had always been touchy when he attempted to talk to their daughters.†   (source)
  • Too brusque, Alayne thought.†   (source)
  • He was brusque.†   (source)
  • Smiling, Max laid the letter aside and opened others from Nigel Bristow, Cynthia Gilley, Mr. Vincenti, and Nolan, and a brusque note from Tweedy that a manuscript on siege warfare was "shamelessly overdue" from the Bacon Library.†   (source)
  • Rhunon's expression darkened and, in a brusque voice, she said, "Do you want this sword or not, Shadeslayer?†   (source)
  • She had given her employees the news of the store closing a few days earlier, and the mood on the floor and among the staff was decidedly somber, all the more distinguished from Tommy's brusque, overpleased activity.†   (source)
  • Standing at another service entrance -- they all might as well have been fringed with barbed wire -- waiting for another brusque superintendent who would hardly even look at him, he wondered whether this could really be the station he had been put on earth to occupy.†   (source)
  • He had had enough of Jasper and Soupy and felt that the whole question of Pea and Deets had been treated too brusquely.†   (source)
  • If anything, I had only criticisms, and though I chose not to air them I was feeling edgy all the same, driving brusquely, speeding and changing lanes without signaling.†   (source)
  • Armansky replied brusquely that Salander's involvement in any murder was still an open question, and that his concern was to provide support for a former employee whom he considered innocent.†   (source)
  • "They don't merely seem to," said Stoddard, almost brusquely, "they do dislike and despise you, and that most heartily.†   (source)
  • Captain Vel said, brusque, "My own ship's shuttle is docked, I'd be more than happy to take my lord where she wants to go."†   (source)
  • 'Luigi, you still don't understand,' Milo snapped with such brusque impatience that the police commissioner's face flushed and he jumped to attention and began buttoning his uniform in confusion.†   (source)
  • They were silent, clannish, self-contained, but they were also brusquely generous at unpredictable intervals.†   (source)
  • Milo vetoed the idea brusquely.†   (source)
  • All the men were annoyed with Captain Call because he told of Gus's dying brusquely, got himself a little food and rode away to be alone, as he always did in the evening.†   (source)
  • He settled the question of whether or no she should enter into conversation, by accosting her at once brusquely and genially.†   (source)
  • She came up to me and straightened the blanket with a brusque, timid gesture that took the place of the hug she was afraid to give me.†   (source)
  • He wanted to offer her something, and, as the nearest thing in reach, sprang down from the automobile and, laying a hand on her arm, said, almost brusquely: "Get in.†   (source)
  • Her brother's voice was full of brusque confidence, but Catelyn found herself wishing that Robb had not taken her uncle Brynden west with him.†   (source)
  • Stannis reined up long enough to hark a brusque dismissal to Lord Florent and the others, commanding them to attend him in his pavilion one hour hence for a council of war.†   (source)
  • When all of them were in place, the Magnar shouted a brusque command in the Old Tongue, and five of his Therms started up together.†   (source)
  • He waved a brusque dismissal.†   (source)
  • Harrenhal was one of the richest plums in the Seven Kingdoms, its lands broad and rich and fertile, its great castle as formidable as any in the realm …. and so large as to dwarf Riverrun, where Petyr Baelish had been fostered by House Tully, only to be brusquely expelled when he dared raise his sights to Lord Hoster's daughter.†   (source)
  • He would have liked nothing better than to refuse the brusque demand, but he knew Styr would put him to death at the slightest disloyalty, and Ygritte as well, for the crime of being his.†   (source)
  • She watched him empty his glass in a single gesture; the brusque, brief movement of his hand made it look like the gesture of some solemn pledge.†   (source)
  • He made a brusque gesture.†   (source)
  • He chuckled at her brusque departure.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of brusque, demanding, impatient snap of sound he would have produced if he were now jabbing his finger at someone's doorbell.†   (source)
  • "Motive power?" the man was saying in a voice that had a brusque, staccato snap and a slurred, nasal drawl, together.†   (source)
  • You're not afraid," he said to her suddenly, without explanation, a fiat statement in a brusque, lifeless voice that had a note of wonder.†   (source)
  • It had a brusque, absentminded sound.†   (source)
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