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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

brassy
    adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn:
           brassy, 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:
       brassy, 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 [syn:
       audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced,
       brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Brassy \Brass"y\, n. [Written also brassie and brassey.]
   (Golf)
   A wooden club soled with brass.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Brassy \Brass"y\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,
      or hardness, of brass.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for brassy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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