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BRASSY
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
(adjective) 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
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
brassy, brasslike
(adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
brassy (comparative brassier, superlative brassiest)
Resembling brass.
(informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
Unfeeling; pitiless.
Harsh in tone.
Etymology 2
Noun
brassy (plural brassies)
Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”)
Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
Source: Wiktionary
Brass"y, a.
1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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