ˈbrusquely, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2: see also brussly.]
In a brusque manner; off-handedly.
| 1671 True Non-Conf. 85 Our Lord..doth bruskly decline, to be so much as an amicable trister. 1842 Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 15 She..rather brusquely proposes their mutual marriage. 1882 B. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. II. xx. 232 The man refused most brusquely. |