brusque

Modifies a noun

• manner: Patients will rightly no longer accept the brusque, off-hand manner of some in the medical ' old school ' .
• service: It is a pity about the brusque service, however.
• dismissal: I do think that there are aspects of PT which are worth serious consideration rather than out of hand brusque dismissal.
• response: If you receive an unexpectedly brusque response when you telephone, check the Radio Times, sports pages.
• man: To those who didn't know him very well, Alfred was a rather brusque man.
• approach: Naturally, the reporter's - shall we say - brusque approach to things lands him in more trouble than you can ever imagine.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: My caffeine fix was served by a rather brusque Italian woman today.
• very: The waitresses are all Eastern European and have a very brusque manner.
• slightly: The action was rather closer behind, as David Franklin and David Ashton engaged in a tense and sometimes slightly brusque battle for second.
• too: I hope I haven't been too brusque - I certainly don't mean to be!
• little: If service seems a little brusque sometimes that is because the waiter is always so busy.
• equally: When one did come down the service in the coffee bar was slow and equally brusque.