All 5 Uses of
brusque
in
Arrowsmith
- Brusquely opening a black bag, he gave him a hypodermic of strychnin and held a vial of ammonia to his nose.†
Chpt 11 *
- It was by telephone message from a brusque girl clerk in the president's office that he was informed that "his resignation had been accepted.†
Chpt 12
- The child was still alive when he came brusquely into the house All the way back he had seen her dead and stiff.†
Chpt 15
- The reporters disliked him for his secrecy and occasional brusqueness.†
Chpt 24
- He brusquely pinched up the skin of the upper arm and jabbed it with the needle of the syringe, cursing at them for jerking, never seeing their individual faces.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(brusque) abrupt (sudden and quick -- without taking the time to be friendly)