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abrasive personality
Definition
direct in a disagreeable, insensitive manner
- "Why wasn't the Agency informed of this tip you received seven months ago?" asked the CIA's Knowlton abrasively.Chapter 15 (46% in)
- I want to be careful, that's all," said Bourne abrasively.Chapter 31 (28% in)
There are no more uses of "abrasive" flagged with this meaning in The Bourne Identity.
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- Quiet signals had been sent and received, not loud enough or abrasive enough to be alarms, but they were there and she had heard them.Chapter 18 (49% in)
- Soft fabric moving briefly across an abrasive surface.Chapter 8 (20% in)
- Broken by the abrasive voice of the Security Council's Alfred Gillette.Chapter 15 (54% in)
- For the first time during the conference, the abrasive delegate from the National Security Council seemed to hesitate.Chapter 15 (78% in)
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