Sentence examples for brusque with from inspiring English sources
As a result, stores were often understaffed and employees were brusque with customers.
Plumbers, shopkeepers and the late General Patton have been brusque with some people, solicitous with others.
Wise behaviour in such places is to walk fast, avoid eye contact and be brusque with strangers.
He was brusque with stupidity, fastidious, a lover of the good things in life and pleased to own a Maserati.
The note portrayed her as "John Bolton on steroids" with a tendency to be brusque with allies.
Adoboli was known as a dedicated trader who put in long hours, although he could be brusque with colleagues.
An angry email he had sent to a superior — combined with occasional temper flare-ups and brusque interactions with colleagues — was endangering his job of two years as deputy director of communication at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Soon after, they used similarly brusque tactics with Mr. Stern.
Her style is brusque, hardboiled, with a satirist's taste for gallows humor.
Elsewhere he expresses a brusque impatience with charity and the clamor of worthy causes.
Ethan Hawke's Everett is a loud, brusque man with a short fuse and small vocabulary.
