Bluntness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLUNTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being blunt
• Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
• Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
• the quality of being direct and outspoken
• without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
• the quality of being direct and outspoken.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• slow or deficient in feeling; insensitive; obtuse in understanding or discernment; dull

Words related to BLUNTNESS

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Words that contain BLUNTNESS

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How to use BLUNTNESS in a sentence

• He knew that he would have to face neither rudeness, nor bluntness, nor lack of imagination, nor lack of quick sympathy.
• She lacks tact, is straightforward to bluntness and has not any style about her and little or no idea of company manners, but she is never coarse nor rude.
• Each felt that he might heedlessly offend the young intellectual by putting things with a bluntness for which he had often been conspicuous.
• Russell, after turning a deaf ear to hints to retire which had gradually increased in bluntness, had suddenly turned restive and called Mr.
• Perpetual strife grieved and disturbed his own spirit, while his energy, perseverance, and bluntness of speech, gained him many enemies.
• He was always very secretive, affected much mystery in movements, came and went abruptly, was direct and dogmatic to bluntness in his conversation.
• It was no less impossible to have assisted at the scene between Huish and the captain, and not to perceive, with sudden bluntness, the gulf where he had fallen.
• On this occasion, he seems to have adopted all the rough bluntness of a British tar.
• Sometimes an affected Simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Bluntness giveth it Being.
• I seldom trouble the public with a Greek or Latin name, but on this occasion I trust I may be pardoned for not indulging in all the ingenuous bluntness of the vernacular.
• His bluntness and his odd remarks were, as I thought, partly efforts to disguise his shyness, and partly refuges in which he tried to forget his own sense of it.
• He did it briefly, and I hoped they would answer with equal bluntness, for I dreaded this part of the council.
• Naturally slow in capacity, he had the bluntness of sensibility and phlegmatic patience of disposition which frequently distinguish men with sluggishly-working mental powers.
• Brevity, and breadth, and bluntness were her chief characteristics, which applied equally to her figure, her face, and her extremities, and, not unfrequently, to her speech too.
• Those who knew Swift, took no offence at his bluntness of behavior.
• The bluntness and weariness of many of the later modelled Roman forms disappear in the new energy of workmanship which was engaged in exploring a fresh field of beauty.
• They took away the guns, however, and they told them with extreme bluntness what sort of men they believed them to be.
• The governor received them with bluntness, but not unkindly, though without much demonstration of good-will.
• He was simple almost to bluntness, but now and then would use a grave irony which must have made listening ears tingle.
• Very likely, the doctrinal articles of these first elders were no better than those of more recent writers, but their plain bluntness and their very age seemed to give them charm.
• The effort to break through this timidity, or to refine the bluntness, may lead to a licentious impetuosity, or an ostentatious minuteness.
• Her willingness to oblige, which knew no bounds when it was not demanded of her, was indeed, like her assumed bluntness, a necessity of her position.
• Hastings was a good sort! I respected him for his bluntness of speech.
• He thought her listlessness indifference, and any bluntness in moral tone in a woman, scandalized him.
• You will excuse me, then, my dear niece, for speaking with a bluntness which, under other circumstances, would be unpardonable.
• You’ll excuse my bluntness, but I take it that you’re a frank man.
• There is an openness, a quickness, almost a bluntness in Mr.
• He commits nobody but himself, and therefore he can afford to speak with a bluntness which is denied to those whose utterances commit many thousands of other people.

Similar words containing BLUNTNES without suffix s

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