Words similar to bluntness

Example sentences for: bluntness

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Worse, he's very big on language humor, on purposely mismatching tone and topic and veering abruptly between high-flown rhetoric and scatological bluntness.
A piece commends Madeleine Albright for her "splendid bluntness" and her belief that the United States must act as the world's moral (and actual) policeman.
For all his bluntness, Wolff never concedes that the product he was selling--essentially another set of Web directories--wasn't that appealing.
There is the old English cutpurse but that sounds too fancy for its purpose and has none of the casual bluntness of the American word.