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Meaning of brassy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  brassy
      adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn:
             {brassy}, {brasslike}]
      2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
         colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
         meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
         {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gaudy},
         {gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty},
         {tawdry}, {trashy}]
      3: 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 [syn:
         {audacious}, {barefaced}, {bodacious}, {bald-faced},
         {brassy}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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