The phrase "brusque tone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's manner of speaking, specifically when their tone is abrupt, blunt, or lacking in warmth or politeness. Example: His brusque tone caught her off guard, making her feel as though she had done something wrong.
This kind of brusque tone often recurs.
"What's the problem?" he asked in a brusque tone.
The brusque tone revealed just how property "guardians" figure in this business: the only real client is the building owner.
Briggs helped her into the front hall and handed her arm to the man, who he guessed was her father, expecting to retreat to his car, but the man closed the door behind the three of them and said, "Wait here," in what, in other circumstances, might have seemed an intolerably brusque tone.
He cancels meetings and rearranges travel when I can't see one more doctor or therapist alone -- when I need someone to witness the raised eye brows, the somber, apologetic, or brusque tones -- he is there.
Against Flake, Ward raised similar questions about the incumbent's political motivations and adopted the brusque nationalistic tone that Trump used successfully during his presidential campaign.
As cofounders Nikki and Darryl field questions, a brusque, businesslike tone dominates the group's chatter.
The 1982 pageant had an odd tone, brusque and apocalyptic.
Mr. Roligheten has a brusque but appealing tone on tenor saxophone, and Mr. Dale extracts rich sonorities from the piano; their fundamentals are sound.
"I have a tongue in my head, and I used it," her mother replies, the brusque and defensive tone clearly familiar to Lucy.
The brusque attitude and tone had been instilled at West Point, together with the gimlet stare and the preference for dealing with America's adversaries, whether Cubans, Palestinians or leftist Nicaraguans, with a bombing run or an invasion.
