Sentence example with the word 'blunt'

blunt

abate, brash, damp, drug, free-going, inexcitable, obtund, severe, straightforward, uncomplicated, unsympathetic

Definition adj. having a broad or rounded end

Last update: June 18, 2015


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Cruelty to animals is immoral, because our sympathies are blunted by it.   [Please select]

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Lot of writing blunts a pencil.   [adjective]

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We shouldn't be blunt in our speech.   [Please select]

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Finish chopping the onion, with a blunt knife.   [adjective]

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His blunt little nose was lengthening and growing thin and pointed.   [Please select]

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National legislation is far too blunt an instrument for that purpose.   [adjective]

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"You would scarce find the tent of the Frenchman with the hair on your head"; said the blunt scout.   [adjective]

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He will perhaps listen more favourably to a blunt and unvarnished defence than a truckling and time-serving judge might do.   [adjective]

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The men of the higher dominating classes whose conscience is naturally not sensitive or has become blunted, if they don't suffer through conscience, suffer from fear and hatred.   [adjective]

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Leave me your knife as well as my own, for one will soon be blunt.   [adjective]

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He recollected the particular way in which Gianbattista used to hold the blunt chisel in first tracing over the drawing on a silver plate.   [adjective]

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