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brusquerie

n. The act or situation of being brusque; an abrupt or blunt quality.

Usage examples of "brusquerie".

I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the brusquerie of her answers.

There was a brusquerie in her manner that would not have been there had there been any one else present.

He admired her, for she was very beautiful, but he was a dandy, and her brusqueries palled on him after a time.

There was a certain graceless brusquerie in the movement which attracted Miss Hofmann's attention.