brassiness

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Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

How boring the world would be if all the Beccas were shamed into hiding by people who think brassiness is just a failure of breeding and taste.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2018

Copper brightens red hair beautifully, while Platinum strips brassiness from blond and grey hair and brightens any white and silver; the Gold shade glosses my hair like nothing else.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017

Mr. Gabler similarly wonders whether people’s objections to Ms. Streisand’s forays into politics were really a reaction to her so-called brassiness.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2016

And studying the fellow's countenance, he decided that, despite its brassiness and simple cunning, it was scarcely the countenance of a rascal.

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold