Blunter

I can be gruffer and blunter with people than I intend to be, and more than occasionally condescending without meaning to be.

Thomson, meanwhile, was blunter about the Scottish Government.

Abbott’s top political strategist, Dave Carney, was blunter in an interview late Tuesday night.

Judy Murray, mother of tennis star Andy Murrray, had a blunter message.

Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, a Democrat who is unaligned in the primary, was even blunter: “The coverage of the emails was ridiculous,” he said.

Craig Clements, who researches the weather associated with wildfires at San José State University, had a blunter assessment.

David Kang, the director of the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute, was blunter in his assessment.

It’s heavier, taller, and blunter to the wind, and drivers will find they have to use every bit of the power in fast-moving traffic or accelerating to highway speeds on short on-ramps.

They are not quite the same as the “spin doctors” of democratic politics, or the blunter propagandists of totalitarian systems.

The prefix dispheno- denotes two such complexes, while hebespheno- indicates a blunter complex of two lunes separated by a third lune.