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brassy

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brassy in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. unrestrained by convention or propriety
    "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
    audacious  barefaced  bodacious  bald-faced  brassy  brazen  brazen-faced  insolent 
  2. resembling the sound of a brass instrument
    brassy  brasslike 
  3. tastelessly showy
    "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
    brassy  cheap  flash  flashy  garish  gaudy  gimcrack  loud  meretricious  tacky  tatty  tawdry  trashy 
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