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形容詞

bluntish (comparative more bluntish, superlative most bluntish)

1. Somewhat blunt.
   • 1759, A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, London: J. Coote, Volume 2, “Horsemanship,” p. 97,^[1]

     […] at nine years, the foremost teeth shew longer, yellower, and fouler than before; and the tushes become bluntish […]

   They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.

   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Part I, Chapter 1,^[2]

     I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 78, IV,

     The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer.

派生語

• bluntishly
• bluntishness