Both Uses
brusque
in
The Magic Mountain
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- You shouldn't have been so brusque about rejecting medical treatment, at least not the psychological part.†
Chpt 1.3 *brusque = abrupt
- With a brusque, demanding gesture he held out his hand.†
Chpt 7.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(brusque) abrupt (sudden and quick -- without taking the time to be friendly)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)