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BLUNT

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Traducere în limba română

blunt I. adjectiv

1. bont, neascuţit, tâmp; obtuz.

2. (fig.) tâmp, obtuz, prost, greu de cap, încet la judecată.

3. (fig.) din topor, necioplit; aspru, grosolan; nesimţitor.

4. (fig.) drept, direct, tăios; sincer, deschis.

blunt II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a toci, a slăbi, a înmuia, a îndulci.

blunt II. verb B. intranzitiv

a se toci.

blunt III. substantiv

1. ac scurt şi gros.

2. (sl. înv.) bani, parale, monede.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him, and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the warmest heart.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The head had been beaten in by repeated blows of some heavy and blunt weapon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"No, I don't," was the blunt reply.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time, but happening to meet Jo at a friend's, something in her comical face and blunt manners struck the old lady's fancy, and she proposed to take her for a companion.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

When Aunt spoke to me the other day, she regretted your blunt manners and too independent spirit, and here she writes, as if quoting something you had said—'I planned at first to ask Jo, but as 'favors burden her', and she 'hates French', I think I won't venture to invite her.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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