adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2: see also BRUSSLY.] In a brusque manner; off-handedly.
1671. True Non-Conf., 85. Our Lord … doth bruskly decline, to be so much as an amicable trister.
1842. Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets, 15. She … rather brusquely proposes their mutual marriage.
1882. B. Ramsay, Recoll. Mil. Serv., II. xx. 232. The man refused most brusquely.
