[
UK
/blˈʌntnəs/
]
[ US /ˈbɫəntnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫəntnəs/ ]
NOUN
-
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible -
the quality of being direct and outspoken
the bluntness of a Yorkshireman
How To Use bluntness In A Sentence
- `Your own position, if you'll forgive my bluntness, could be a great deal unhappier than mine if he isn't stopped quickly. PROSECUTOR
- Pardon my bluntness but neither of you is a spring lamb anymore.
- A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen.
- But there is, in many of its aspects, a confrontational bluntness that ensures relegation to the peripheries.
- If that sort of bluntness piques your interest, then the debut LP from Milwaukee's finest is made for you.
- His impolitic bluntness ultimately got the best of him.
- Instead, they take up those weapons in the male armoury more befitting of their glabrous state: candour, bluntness, directness, scepticism. THE CALLIGRAPHER
- the bluntness of a Yorkshireman
- Miss Sheldon, I have wondered if it were possible that you could be like your picture -- and you are," he returned with true sailorly bluntness. Gold Out of Celebes
- Benton looked about the table and, with characteristic bluntness, said, ‘Who are all these people?’
