0 in a sudden, unexpected, and sometimes unpleasant way:
1 in a way that seems rude and unfriendly, especially by using very few words when talking:
She came back five minutes late from lunch and was abruptly dismissed.
The age of the dinosaurs ended abruptly about 65 million years ago.
If the ending is ultimately and abruptly happy, the pathos lingers.
As the reorganization perspective argues, elites led the way in abruptly changing the types (not just numbers) of civic groups with which they affiliated.
