| ADJECTIVE | pert | brassy, brasslike | resembling the sound of a brass instrument |
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| all | brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy | tastelessly showy | |
| all | brassy, audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent | unrestrained by convention or propriety |
| Sounds | brae'siy | |
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| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | resembling the sound of a brass instrument. | |
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| Synonym | brasslike | |
| Nouns | brass | a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece |
| brass | the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | |
| Meaning | tastelessly showy. | |
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| Synonyms | cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy | |
| Broader | tasteless | lacking aesthetic or social taste |
| Spanish | chillón, estridente, hortera, llamativo, vistoso, vulgar | |
| Catalan | cridaner, estrident, llampant, vulgar | |
| Meaning | unrestrained by convention or propriety. | |
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| Synonyms | audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent | |
| Broader | unashamed | Used of persons or their behavior |
| Spanish | descarado, impudente, insolente | |
| Catalan | descarat, insolent | |
| Nouns | brass | impudent aggressiveness |
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