BLUNTLY Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

bluntly

adverb

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Recent Examples of bluntly International quality players like Morgan Gibbs-White, Murillo, Chris Wood and Neco Williams have helped fade the memory of men like Adama Diakhaby, Lica and Nicolau Dumitru, who, bluntly, impressed rather less. — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Yigal Guetta, a former lawmaker from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said it bluntly on Israel’s Channel 12 News. — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 29 June 2026 Another in his circle put it more bluntly. — Kelby Woodard, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 Or, put more bluntly, Bougie White Woman Mah-Jongg. — Ashley Parker, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 One outfitter bluntly canceled our reservations. — Fred Bear, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026 His land-use consultant, Athena Novak, frames their position bluntly. — Max Kutner, HollywoodReporter, 7 June 2026 Their younger sister, Kerry Kennedy, put it far more bluntly. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 The exhibit pulls few punches, referring bluntly to pushback against racial progress, widening gaps between rich and poor and drivers of the conservative movement from presidents Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026

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Citadel executives brusquely dismiss the idea that anything shady is going on.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
In some instances, judges brusquely threw cases out of court after prosecutors walked in with little evidence.

— Brian Rokos, Daily News, 7 May 2026

Definition of brusquely

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Trump was expected to sign the housing bill at Capitol Hill during a ceremony in June, but abruptly canceled in protest over the Senate’s inaction in passing his election legislation, the SAVE America Act.

— Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 13 July 2026
Flores lost his ability to make phone calls, after his PIN was abruptly suspended.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of abruptly

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And that’s a lot of energy to shed as a vehicle comes blaring back into Earth’s thick atmosphere, a process that typically annihilates objects returning from space unless they are precisely designed to survive the trip.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
In addition, exposure to a magnetic field changes the amount of that rotation, and allows the sensor to precisely measure the field’s strength.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026

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