Definition of 'brassy'

Adjective

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

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