Brassy
['brɑːsɪ] or ['bræsi]
Definition
(adj.) tastelessly showy; 'a flash car'; 'a flashy ring'; 'garish colors'; 'a gaudy costume'; 'loud sport shirts'; 'a meretricious yet stylish book'; 'tawdry ornaments' .
(adj.) resembling the sound of a brass instrument .
Typed by Avery--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
(a.) Impudent; impudently bold.
Typist: Perry
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Colloquial.] Bold, pert, assuming, forward, CHEEKY, brazen, brazen-faced.
Checked by Leroy
Examples
- A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Pablo was standing close to him and he smelled the brassy, dead-wine smell that came from him like the taste of a copper coin in your mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Look Life in its iron face; stare Reality out of its brassy countenance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Percival