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Like a brassy classic dame, she says exactly what she means.

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Before she met Felber, Dunham was mulling tapping into her experience of spending extended periods in England for work and the culture clash of a brassy American coming to the U.K.

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Valenzuela wrote a book about the newest version of drug ballads, known as corridos tumbados, which combine acoustic guitar, brassy horns and the aesthetic and lyrical content of U.S. gangster rap.

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He does think her reported response — “for what?” — sounds just like his brassy little sister.

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She was streetwise and brassy and physically striking, a small-time hustler and “dice girl” who lingered in casinos to induce men to drink and gamble.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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