The phrase "a blunt response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a reply that is straightforward, direct, and possibly lacking in tact or subtlety.
Example: "Her blunt response to the question left everyone in the room feeling a bit uncomfortable."
Alternatives: "a direct reply" or "a straightforward answer."
Fortune's Dan Primack had a blunt response: "It.
Keane's response when a Belgian journalist suggested Ireland might be favourites met with a blunt response.
It was a blunt response to comments by US officials that they do not have "high expectations" that the election will change "the fundamental calculus of Iran".
A spokesman for Ms. Milgram, Peter Aseltine, had a blunt response: "If you commit a crime, you will be held accountable".
Senator Claire McCaskill, the Democrat who will face Mr. Akin in the November election, immediately took to Twitter with a blunt response.
He stressed that he was not celebrating the UK's decision to leave the EU, but his remarks – and his suggestion that any talks on sovereignty should include Gibraltar – were met with a blunt response.
The contribution of leptin resistance to obesity has also been established by the demonstration that hyperleptinemic animals and humans have a blunted response to exogenous leptin.
Our results investigating the ability of E2 and specific ER agonists to directly and specifically limit T/HS-induced enterocyte iNOS induction extends our previous work documenting a gender difference in the plasma nitric oxide and total ileal iNOS responses to T/HS where PE females were found to have a blunted response as compared to males [12], [18].
Individuals heterozygous for these mutations have a blunted response to inhaled LPS [ 17].
Data on the glucagon release suggest a blunted response to hypoglycemia similar to our findings.
Again, ex-smokers are more similar to current-smokers than to never-smokers, with a trend for a blunted response.
