All 7 Uses of
abrupt
in
Bleak House
- Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness.†
Chpt 13-15
- It's a secret as yet, even on his side, because old Mr. Turveydrop has a share in the connexion and it might break his heart or give him some other shock if he was told of it abruptly.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Good day!" he said abruptly and fiercely.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Mr. Jarndyce was turning to speak to us when his attention was attracted by the abrupt entrance into the room of the Mr. Gridley who had been mentioned and whom we had seen on our way up.†
Chpt 13-15
- With this unexpected speech, energetically delivered and accompanied by action illustrative of the various exercises referred to, Phil Squod shoulders his way round three sides of the gallery, and abruptly tacking off at his commander, makes a butt at him with his head, intended to express devotion to his service.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Pray," says Sir Leicester to Mercury, "what do you mean by announcing with this abruptness a young man of the name of Guppy?"†
Chpt 28-30
- In answer to this question, which was oddly abrupt, I said I liked her very much and thought she was more agreeable than she used to be.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle