brassy Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective resembling the sound of a brass instrument
   brasslike.
   
2. adjective satellite tastelessly showy
   garish; gaudy; meretricious; tatty; tawdry; flash; cheap; flashy; tacky; gimcrack; loud; trashy.
   
   • a flash car
   • a flashy ring
   • garish colors
   • a gaudy costume
   • loud sport shirts
   • a meretricious yet stylish book
   • tawdry ornaments
3. adjective satellite unrestrained by convention or propriety
   insolent; bodacious; audacious; brazen; bald-faced; barefaced; brazen-faced.
   
   • 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

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