bluffness

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Noun
  • There’s a bluntness to GALE’s lyrics that makes her music refreshingly relatable.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The timing and bluntness of Musk’s statement ignited social platforms, as supporters and skeptics alike debated the possibility of corporate malfeasance or cover-up.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mackay and Turner are both excellent, two movie stars who seem totally game to be asked to move with real gruffness.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tengbjerg, a fifty-one-year-old former pro soccer player from Denmark, is fit and trim, with a mischievous, no-nonsense brusqueness not generally associated with massage therapists.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Soliman is known as an elegant dresser, but his apartment was in bachelor-pad disarray, a reflection of his long hours at the hospital and the abruptness of his detention, said his friends, also clerics.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • So Gonzales and the partners depending on Strength CTIP, which was designed as a five-year project, were shocked by the abruptness with which the USAID funding was cut off earlier this year.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Dolphins knew in the spring that Jalen Ramsey’s tardiness and surliness did not fit the culture that the organization wanted to build.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The coarseness of your grounds is determined by the width of the space between the two grinding burrs.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Scott also wanted that level of vulgarity because the song was inspired by true events.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The sour stench of the carcasses was a vulgarity almost too great to bear.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Named after the fierce warrior women of Norse mythology, the Valkyries embody strength, boldness, and resilience.
    Jenn Nelson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And people willing to just have a smidgen of boldness can go straight into that space and tell amazing stories.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Bluffness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluffness. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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