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brassy
adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn: 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" [syn: 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; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern
world with its quick material successes and insolent
belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"-
Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious,
bold-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
[also: brassiest, brassier]