"bruskness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From brusk + -ness.",
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          "ref": "1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14):",
          "text": "On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart.",
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          "ref": "1912, Vaughan Kester, The Just and the Unjust:",
          "text": "\"Why didn't you send for me at once?\" asked the older man with increasing bruskness.",
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          "ref": "1904, B. M. Bower, The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories:",
          "text": "When he had eaten, hungrily and in silence, responding to the mildly ironical sociability of his fellows with a brevity which only his soft voice saved from bruskness, he unrolled his new bed and lay down with not a thought for the part he was playing.",
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