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Definition of Bluntest
1. blunt [adj] - See also: blunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluntest
Literary usage of Bluntest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"... on learning the miscarriage of his plot, disappears from the scene. Joseph is
tempted by his mistress in the bluntest possible language, ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1853)
"... and unmistakable a manner, that it irritated the feelings of many by telling "the
bluntest and most disagreeable truths in the bluntest possible manner. ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1852)
"... as if to aggravate all the prevalent feeling of the age, by telling it the
bluntest and most disagreeable truths in the bluntest possible manner. ..."
4. A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1872)
"It was of this work that one of the reviewers remarked that Pu gin told " the
bluntest aud most disagreeable truths in the bluntest possible manner. ..."
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