"brassy" in the adjective sense
1. brassy, brasslike
resembling the sound of a brass instrument
2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
tastelessly showy
"a flash car"
"a flashy ring"
"garish colors"
"a gaudy costume"
"loud sport shirts"
"a meretricious yet stylish book"
"tawdry ornaments"
3. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
unrestrained by convention or propriety
"an audacious trick to pull"
"a barefaced hypocrite"
"the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times
"bald-faced lies"
"brazen arrogance"
"the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
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