blunt instrument
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One deep wound had been inflicted upon the temple, apparently with some blunt instrument, which had penetrated the brain."
- "It had been struck by some heavy blunt instrument, but the skull was not broken."
- "The analyst is in a sense a blunt instrument, but he can work as somebody who cares, and I think a good analyst makes the patient feel that he has value."
- "The law is a woefully blunt instrument when it comes to domestic violence of all kinds."
- "[T]he United States will continue to rely on dollar depreciation as a blunt instrument to fight all its economic battles."
- "If Mr. Mubarak's Egypt has resorted to the traditional blunt instrument against dissent in a crisis — cutting off communications altogether — other countries have shown greater sophistication."