brassiness

Example Sentences

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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

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

It was an Independence Day tribute almost psychedelic in its bright brassiness, its militaristic precision.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2014

Swinburne, on the other hand, can hardly find words strong enough to express his contempt for the "blare and brassiness" of Byron; but that also is an exaggeration.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph