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• The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
• The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
• The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
• His wits are not so blunt.
• the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
• a plain, blunt man
• I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
• 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
• Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[...]
• That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
• It will take twice as long if you're using blunt instruments.
• I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's important that you understand.