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blunt

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1. blunt - Noun

2. blunt - Adjective

3. blunt - Verb

4. blunt - Adjective Satellite

5. Blunt - Proper noun

Meaning

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.

Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

A fencer's foil.

A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

Money.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. Lester B. Pearson

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. Edsger W. Dijkstra

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. Max Beerbohm

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. William Wordsworth

The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife. Kikuyu Proverb

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. English Proverb

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