adv. [f. BLUFF a. + -LY2.]

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  1.  With a bluff or bold face, abruptly.

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1870.  Daily News, 28 Dec., 6/1. The lofty summit of Noisy … standing bluffly up against the horizon.

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  2.  Abruptly, bluntly, offhandedly.

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1794.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Rowl. for Oliver, Wks. II. 427. Turns bluffly from the charms that taste adores.

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1852.  Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., x. 103. ‘You shall do no such thing, Mr. Moodie,’ said Hollingsworth, bluffly.

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1883.  Standard, 18 May, 3/2. Both canvases present us with bluffly picturesque figures.

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