If service seems a little brusque sometimes that is because the waiter is always so busy. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Try to cultivate a less brusque manner. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Britain - another would recall brusque, high-handed rudeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Hard liquor is on the drink menu but the brusque is the draw, with nearly 30 brews poured. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports] Reference
Service at Pfaffen could be charitably called brusque, and our waiter at zur Malzmühle was certainly cool. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of Kölsch in Cologne] Reference
Very fast, or "brusque," foreign-exchange movements can be unwelcome, Mr. Bini Smaghi said. From Wordnik.com. [ECB Has Interest in Strong Euro] Reference
And more "brusque" behaviour from the star followed. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
Our impeccable mole says the star's "brusque" manner with some journos put a few backs up. From Wordnik.com. [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference
There is a kind of brusque humor in his address, a downright heartiness, which reminds one of western character. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1] Reference
Mr. Price is aware that he comes across as "brusque" to many people, but he has a very clear vision of leadership. From Wordnik.com. [TVBizwire] Reference
Doris huffed and puffed, gave a "brusque" response, and then fretted the rest of the day away at the man's impertinence. From Wordnik.com. [Rate Your Students] Reference
Isn't this New York, home of the free and the brusque?. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy on the Streets] Reference
He made a brusque movement, throwing himself backward. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Burley's brusque manner has been repeatedly criticised. From Wordnik.com. [Kay Burley accused of being 'a bit dim' by Labour MP Chris Bryant] Reference
The part is tailor-made for Redford's brusque romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [A Lesson In Star Chemistry] Reference
The General, with a brusque and awkward manner, saluted the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But there is danger that the too brief letter will sound brusque. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
"Cannot take a boy without references," was the brusque rejoinder. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
His air was haughty and dissatisfied, his language brusque and dry. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Deripaska's associates speak of his brusque manner and powerful mind. From Wordnik.com. [‘There Will Be Bankruptcies’] Reference
Dr Cotes 'manner was a trifle brusque, -- particularly, I believe, to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Which has made me, well, "irritable and brusque" might be putting it mildly. From Wordnik.com. [Delia Lloyd: 5 Ways to Be Less Impatient With Your Kids (PHOTOS)] Reference
"The more affluent they are, the more demanding and brusque they tend to be.". From Wordnik.com. [2012 London Olympics: UK Issues Etiquette Guidelines] Reference
I was watching Lampron, who was plainly angered at this brusque introduction. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He is known for being brash and brusque, for perpetual motion and quick action. From Wordnik.com. [In Chicago, it's not Rahm's for the asking] Reference
"Mr. President," Mephistopheles smiles -- but the president's manner is brusque. From Wordnik.com. [MP Nunan: Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles] Reference
But he often seemed to undermine himself with his brusque manner and boastfulness. From Wordnik.com. [ONE MAN'S FLIGHT OF FANCY] Reference
The descent was "long, brusque, and rapid, like the descent of a gigantic ladder.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Like a native inner-city New Yorker, they are brusque, in your face and hard-edged. From Wordnik.com. [Streetwise Paris] Reference
This standpoint contains nothing unfriendly, nothing brusque against the United States. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
But he is brusque by nature, and if he can seem bumptious to the press at times, why not?. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
The paper unfortunately survived; my response, which was for me unusually brusque, didn't. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference
People who were annoyed by rude, brusque, or indifferent treatment in other banks came to this one. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Summers was forced to resign in 2006 after the faculty rebelled against his brusque management style. From Wordnik.com. [The Reeducation of Larry Summers] Reference
Best of all is Falco, whose bruised, brusque, soulful Southern girl banishes all traces of Carmela Soprano. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: Fresh Squeezed] Reference
New York City can be everything -- smug, arrogant, brusque, provincial -- that much of the world hates about this country. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Nyc's Olympic Dream Is Still Alive] Reference
She does not aim to please, exactly, but does hold herself accountable, and often frets over whether she's been too brusque. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Swings Away] Reference
But he's a lawyer and actor who now has the air of a brusque lawman unconcerned with consequences: Buford Pusser with a gavel. From Wordnik.com. [Collision Course] Reference
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