Source : WordNet®
brassy
adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn: {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: {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; "bold-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},
{bold-faced}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}]
[also: {brassiest}, {brassier}]
brassier
See {brassy}