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

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

Quick and clever dialogue, yes, and also a main character who’s quite taken by her own impish brassiness.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2017

Temple's brassiness, her infectious good spirits and spunky optimism enchanted viewers, creating a cult of personality that began in the Great Depression and has never gone away.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2015

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