0 quick and rude in manner or speech: --
His secretary was a little brusque with me.
1 quick and direct in manner or speech, and often not polite: --
The passage from collective responsibility to individual judgment cannot be brusque without causing serious strains.
We should not treat it in this brusque fashion.
He then gave a brusque reply which gave the impression that he wished to curtail the debate.
He poured scorn on a page which, it is true, was written in rather brusque and pungent language; he said that it was scurrilous.
The latter result may create an anomaly and a sharp, brusque gap at a certain point.
Sometimes, young people from the ethnic minorities—although not exclusively—receive some brusque treatment from police officers.
I did not mean it as a brusque kind of intervention it came involuntarily.
In the form in which it is drafted the clause is more than brusque.
