Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
1He was big, brusk, quibbling, insulting, dictatorial, painstaking, considerate and kind.
2A large, brusk, well-groomed, good-looking woman of fifty was Auntie.
3In the adjoining room, over the "blotter," snapped the brusk stereotyped nasal reply:
4He was just as brusk and as brief of speech as he had been before.
5Ina, being half a foreigner, thought this rather brusk.
6His brusk manner often gets him into trouble.
7His manner was brisk, brusk, striding over trifles.
8His manner was brusk and business-like again.
9He was distinctly another person from that tense, saturnine, defiant, brusk person who strode through the reception-hall.
10She spoke with almost brusk decision.
11But his voice was not brusk.
12The green dwarf was brusk.
13Roland had always imagined that editors in their private offices were less easily approached and, when approached, more brusk.
14The brusk reply was: Why, you old fool, that's the Cabinet that is a-settin', and them thar big feet are ole Abe's.
15There were no endearments or caresses, naturally, but her brusk nods of greeting and farewell seemed to have real good feeling behind them.
16It swept over Thorwaldsen, like a winter's wave, that this big, brusk, bizarre woman before him was Maria Louisa, the second wife of Napoleon.