What is "bluffness"

Usage examples of "bluffness".

Forsyte," he said, "a little bluffness," and after he had spoken he laughed firmly, closed his lips tight, and scratched his head just below where he had pushed his wig back, for all the world like the gentlemanfarmer for whom he loved to be taken.

As for his bluffness and toughness and appeals to common sense, all that is, of course, simply the first trick of rhetoric.

For all his bluffness, he was a good sort, and I never thought I'd find a consort.

For all his bluffness, he was a good sort, and I never thought Id find a consort.