Blunt
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Hard to impress or penetrate.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
A fencer's foil.
A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
Money.
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Blunt Quotations
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Richard M. Nixon
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe
Blunt Translations
blunt in Dutch is stomp, bot
blunt in German is abstumpfen, stumpf, stumpf, sehr deutlich
blunt in Italian is spuntato
blunt in Portuguese is sem corte
blunt in Spanish is obtuso, embotado
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