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brusque 音标拼音: [br'ʌsk] a. 唐突的,直率的 唐突的,直率的 brusque adj 1: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; " try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; " a curt reply"; " the salesgirl was very short with him" [ synonym: { brusque}, { brusk}, { curt}, { short( p)}] Brusque \ Brusque\, a. [ F. brusque, from It. brusco brusque, tart, sour, perh. fr. L. ( vitis) labrusca wild ( vine); or cf. OHG. bruttisc grim, fr. brutti terror.] Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style. [ 1913 Webster] 115 Moby Thesaurus words for " brusque": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, aggressive, aposiopestic, artless, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, broad, candid, cavalier, churlish, clipped, close, close- tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, crusty, curt, cut, direct, discourteous, docked, downright, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, explicit, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free- speaking, free- spoken, free- tongued, genuine, gnomic, gruff, harsh, heart- to- heart, ill- mannered, impolite, indisposed to talk, ingenuous, laconic, mum, mute, open, openhearted, outspoken, overbearing, pithy, plain, plain- spoken, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, rough, round, rude, sententious, severe, sharp, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, sincere, snippety, snippy, snug, sparing of words, speechless, straight, straight- out, straightforward, succinct, summary, surly, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight- lipped, to the point, tongue- tied, transparent, truculent, truncated, unchecked, uncivil, unconstrained, unequivocal, ungracious, unguarded, unloquacious, unmannerly, unreserved, unrestrained, untalkative, word- bound, wordless
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