Which preposition to use with brusque

in Occurrences 6%

Mr. Lossing graphically described it as follows: "Nicolls was tall, athletic and about forty-five years of age, a soldier, haughty and sometimes very irritable and brusque in speech when excited.

about Occurrences 1%

The young man was so brusque about it, however, that other table mates ceased quizzing him.

as Occurrences 1%

At ten o'clock M. Jean Duval arrived, as was his wont, supercilious and brusque as usual.

than Occurrences 1%

The more wealthy people generally spend some time in New Orleans every year, which makes them much more sociable, and much less brusque than their neighbours.

with Occurrences 1%

Probably there was at the back of his attentions to Mrs Ottley a vague idea that he wanted to get her on his sidethat she might be a useful ally; but he was always charming to elderly women, and inclined to be brusque with younger ones, excepting Edith; he remembered his own mother with so great a cult of devotion, and his late wife with such a depressed indifference.

Which preposition to use with  brusque