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Перевод: bluntness

[существительное]
тупость ; прямота

Тезаурус:

1. His ass, I suggest, wondering how the bluntness of the joke will go down.
2. Here, he reiterated the British position based on the new White paper with "bluntness"; he told Berle he was not prepared to discuss routes, but could discuss the principles of a civil aviation convention and the equitable division of traffic.
3. If the spikes were sharp, like the dorsal fins of many fish, the strategy would be easy to understand, but their shortness and bluntness mean that, for the moment, the potto remains another puzzle.
4. Lenin, with his characteristic bluntness, might affirm that
5. Such bluntness, such honesty, it was embarrassing; you weren't prepared for it, so you didn't know how to react.
6. His bluntness shocked her.
7. He was a North-countryman, and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered, I think, as a traditional North-country attitude, exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness; it may have been merely a defence mechanism.
8. He is a cult figure and dressed in his familiar patchwork suit, Biggles hat and flying goggles, he delivers his notoriously outrageous humour with forthright bluntness.
9. Secord was North's operations manager, a stocky ex-general in his early fifties, much decorated, and with a notable bluntness of manner.
10. Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness, he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness.
11. The proposal for a community charge - or "poll tax" - put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition, not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition, After all, freeborn Englishmen, led by Wat Tyler, had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381, and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest, including in the Conservative shires.
12. Beatie crossed herself quickly at the mention of the dead, the young Irish woman was sometimes ashamed of her husband's bluntness.
13. His bluntness, often amounting to personal abuse, has won Australia's treasurer (finance minister) few friends.