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blunderbuss
[bluhn-der-buhs]
noun
a short musket of wide bore with expanded muzzle to scatter shot, bullets, or slugs at close range.
an insensitive, blundering person.
blunderbuss
/ ˈʌԻəˌʌ /
noun
an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
informala clumsy unsubtle person
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blunderbuss1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blunderbuss1
Example Sentences
They are instead using a blunderbuss to blast the whole system by targeting foreign students for deportation and defunding the research that will lead to the breakthroughs of the future.
But I find it hard to unequivocally pick who’s right and wrong when the choices are between Hamas, a terrorist organization, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose blunderbuss response to the Oct.
Unfortunately, these mouthwashes are a blunderbuss approach to oral health, as they indiscriminately remove both good and bad bacteria and increase oral acidity, which can cause disease.
Whereas Smith’s Jan. 6 indictment was an arrow aimed straight at Trump, Willis’ is a blunderbuss.
It’s as if the nation’s founders in writing the 2nd Amendment’s right to bear arms in 1789 had specified the maximum muzzle size of a blunderbuss or fire power of a musket.
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