brusqueness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]brusqueness (usually uncountable, plural brusquenesses)
- The state or quality of being brusque; brusque behaviour.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 517:
- Syed Hassan felt somewhat ashamed of his brusqueness, his rudeness, his boasting.