eng: brassy

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means(adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument
brassy, brasslike
means(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, tatty, flashy, gimcrack, trashy, tawdry, meretricious, tacky, flash, garish, cheap, loud, gaudy
means(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
barefaced, bodacious, brassy, insolent, brazen, brazen-faced, bald-faced, audacious

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