blunt
/blʌnt/ 形容词 C1中文： 钝
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. · I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
- Hard to impress or penetrate. · December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
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He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon.
They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
The blunt accusation, the brutal tap upon the shoulder—what can one make of such a denouement?
This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by his writhing, unnatural posture.
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