forthputtingness

Updated: May 21, 2025

I know not exactly why, but all our imputed peculiarities our nasal pronunciation, our ungraceful idioms, our forthputtingness, our uncouth lack of courtesy do really seem to exist on a foreign shore; and even, perhaps, to be heightened of malice prepense. The cold, unbelieving eye of Englishmen, expectant of solecisms in manners, contributes to produce the result which it looks for.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance