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Bluffness

noun
1.
Good-natured frankness.






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"Bluffness" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclusiveness, charging such high prices, governing the men with so iron a sway, and arranging everything so entirely according to his own fancy, that he is a complete sovereign in his own small way—the tyrant of Tampico. He has in his weather-beaten face such a mixture of bluffness and slyness, with his gigantic person, and abrupt, half-savage manners, that, altogether, I conceive him to be a character who might have been worthy the attention of Walter Scott, had he chanced to encounter ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca



Words linked to "Bluffness" :   outspokenness, frankness, bluff



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