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• a  resembling the sound of a brass instrument
• s  tastelessly showy
• s  unrestrained by convention or propriety

• She had slipped away from Billy Wayne and small town Texas in 1987 and found her way back to Houston, a city with a brash and brassy side.
• They picked up a North Korean station and got the brassy blare of a Sousa march.
• Goose-stepping Nazis have long marched smartly to the brassy, thumpy music of the Badenweiler march.

• brasslike
• cheap
• flash
• flashy
• garish
• gaudy
• gimcrack
• loud
• meretricious
• tacky
• tatty
• tawdry
• trashy
• audacious
• barefaced
• bodacious
• bald-faced
• brazen
• brazen-faced
• insolent

News & Articles

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• Janelle Monae Fearlessly Freaks Out on Footloose Clapper 'Dance Apocalyptic'
  Janelle Monáe reminds us once again that "the booty don't lie." On brassy Erykah Badu collaboration "Q.U.E.E.N.," recently 
  June 28, 2013 - Spin

Quotes

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• Eric Rudolph in Kansas City Star
  Rudolph described Derzis as "brassy, worldly, the kind of woman who had not only been around the block a few times but was probably dragged behind a truck the entire way."
• Carlton Fisk in Chicago Tribune
  All you have to do is find a muzzle for him sometimes,Fisk said. "That's Ozzie, though. We used to tell Ozzie when he was playing, 'Ozzie, shut up.' But he's bold, he's brassy, he played, he has fun. That's what he has tried to instill in...
• Brendan Cole in RTE.ie
  Brendan Cole said: "Anyone who is loud, obnoxious, common or brassy is a big turn off for me."