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Definition of Bluffness
1. Noun. Good-natured frankness.
Definition of Bluffness
1. n. The quality or state of being bluff.
Definition of Bluffness
1. Noun. The quality of being bluff ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bluffness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluffness
Literary usage of Bluffness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Rudeness, incivility, bluntness, bluffness, tien), spirits of hartshorn, liquid
ammonia. Harum-scarum, a. (Co/log.) Volatile, rash, precipitate, wild. ..."
2. The Flying-machine from an Engineering Standpoint: A Reprint of the "James by Frederick William Lanchester, James Forrest lecture (1917)
"Now, when the bluffness is zero we have the case of a thin lamina in tangential
... When any degree of bluffness, whether by edge thickness or otherwise, ..."
3. Principle in Art, Etc by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1907)
"His brother says, " There was a certain British bluffness streaking the finely
poised Italian suppleness and facility." This describes, better than perhaps ..."
4. Essays by a Barrister by James Fitzjames Stephen (1862)
"All these points are modifications of the geniality and warmth of heart which
John Bull's external bluffness is meant to suggest It should ..."
5. Heretics by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1905)
"... his bluffness and toughness and appeals to common sense, all that is, of
course, simply the first trick of rhetoric. He fronts his audiences with the ..."
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