brassiness

Example Sentences

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Despite their brassiness, the gang was also deterred by small measures, authorities say.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024

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

Hardy gave his heroine a symphonic range, and all an actress can do is pick out certain tones and strains—the fluted whimsy by which Bathsheba is occasionally stirred, or the brassiness of her anger.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

But it also counts on the now slightly tempered brassiness of Ms. Vitale, who said she was openly frustrated at seeing techies steal the movie world’s sense of cool.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014

The band was working away with a strident brassiness which filled the room with noise.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)