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Brassy   /brˈæsi/   Listen
Brassy

adjective
1.
Resembling the sound of a brass instrument.  Synonym: brasslike.
2.
Tastelessly showy.  Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.  "A flashy ring" , "Garish colors" , "A gaudy costume" , "Loud sport shirts" , "A meretricious yet stylish book" , "Tawdry ornaments"
3.
Unrestrained by convention or propriety.  Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent.  "A barefaced hypocrite" , "The most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim" , "Bald-faced lies" , "Brazen arrogance" , "The modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"






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"Brassy" Quotes from Famous Books



... bitter cold; it was raining heavily; but soon after sunrise the rain slackened, the fog grew thinner, and the air warmer. Slowly the sun appeared, at first only a dazzling blot through the smother, then brassy, glittering, flooding the chilled earth ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers

... west did a single cowboy come into view to remind the girl of the heroic past, and this one but a symbol—a figure of speech. Leaning forward upon his reeling, foaming steed, he spurred along the road as if pursued, casting backward apprehensive glances, as if in the brassy eyes of the car he read his doom—the ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland

... Chown's brassy voice, "that it's by no means certain Liversedge is to be our candidate. I am in a position to assure you that many of our most reliable men are not at all satisfied with that choice—not at all satisfied. I don't ...
— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing

... became the youngest man in the room,—an extraordinary case of rejuvenescence. He surveyed the room with triumph. He sniffed up the brassy and clicking music into his vibrating nostrils. He felt no envy of any man in the room. When the band paused he clapped like a child for another dose of fox-trot. At the end of the third dose they were both a little breathless and they had ices. After a waltz they both realised that excess ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

... in that high brassy pitch of voice which Jem and I had adopted for this bravado period of our existence—"I think she's like our old white hen that turned up its eyes and died of the ...
— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing


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