blunt

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  1. adjective Having a dull edge or end; not sharp.
  2. adjective Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech: "Onscreen, John Wayne was a blunt talker and straight shooter” (Time). See Synonyms at gruff.
  3. adjective Slow to understand or perceive; dull.
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  • Rephrase blunt messages such as "I'm busy" for better communication —  Feed of Eventbrite Events
  • "To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program," he said in an Oct. 28 speech. —  Taipei Times
  • "To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program," he said in an October 28 speech. —  MyWire: MyWire Top Stories
  • To be painfully blunt, the truth of the matter is that if you assume and hold strong convictions in a origin of life story dictated by mythology, it's no different than me saying that everything was spawned forth by the noodley appendage of a flying spaghetti monster. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • "To be blunt, the TRB's just ain't gonna happen," Dewhurst said. —  The Daily Texan RSS
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stubby ·  barbed ·  curt ·  razor-sharp ·  emphatic ·  sharp ·  sharp-pointed ·  jagged ·  straightforward ·  sarcastic ·  outspoken ·  abrupt

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blunt:   blunter ·  bluntest ·  blunted ·  blunts
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  1. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English blunt, blont, of an edge or point, dull, not sharp; of manner, rude; of mind, dull, stupid, blind; prob. from Anglo-Saxon *blunt, found in the deriv. Blunta, a man's name (cf. the modern English surnames Blunt, Blount). The sense of ‘dull, stupid,’ appears to be the orig. one (see the quotation from the Ormulum), pointing to a connection with Icelandic blunda = Swedish blunda = Danish blunde, doze, slumber. Cf. blunder, and the sense of blunt in the quotation from the Prompt. Parv. under blunderer.
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