Crossword-Solution: BLUNTNESS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Bluntness n. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of
sharpness.
Bluntness n. Abruptness of address; rude plainness.

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Direct quality 1 answer
the quality of being direct and outspoken 1 answer
discourtesy 73 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with BLUNTNESS (5)

You will pardon my bluntness, but our lives are all in jeopardy here, and when we get your father back something must be done to impress upon him the dangers to which he exposes you as well as himself by his absent-mindedness.” “I quite agree with you,” replied the girl, “and I am not offended at all.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Use thine influence with me in his behalf, and he is safe,—refuse to employ it, Wilfred dies, and thou thyself art not the nearer to freedom.” “Thy language,” answered Rowena, “hath in its indifferent bluntness something which cannot be reconciled with the horrors it seems to express.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Then he looked, with a certain thinly-veiled bluntness of enquiry, past the Marquis to his companion.
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008
Here, too, the spirits of my driver mended, and he began to sing aloud in a falsetto voice, and with a singular bluntness of musical perception, never true either to melody or key, but wandering at will, and yet somehow with an effect that was natural and pleasing, like that of the of birds.
The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995
But, independent of outward show, his blackguard impudence of address was construed into honourable bluntness becoming his supposed military profession; his hectoring passed for courage, and his sauciness for wit.
The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1996

Quotes with BLUNTNESS (3)

Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!" Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?" Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave! Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave'sAlready as familiar as an ague, And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I can Forget myself in private, but elsewhere, I pray do you remember be." Vindice: "Oh, very well, sir. I conster myself saucy."…
Thomas Middleton The Revenger's Tragedy
The point I was trying to make before you interrupted with your inventoryof my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months." She dropped her eyes. If only he knew that she'd stayed that way all her life. We'll be living in close quarters," he went on. "We're legally married, and it's only natural that we're going to get it on." Get it on? His bluntness reminded her that none of this meant anything to him emotionally, and cont…
Susan Elizabeth Phillips Kiss an Angel
Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.
Shannon L. Alder
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