brassbound
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Star of the serial is brassbound Mickey Rooney.
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The excellent Peter Finch appears as a brassbound industrialist named Krogh who traffics with the Nazis to sustain and increase his fortune.
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The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that killed both men turns out to be the egregious Kenneth Widmerpool, whose fatuous careerism and brassbound egotism have provided veins of comedy running through all nine books.
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In the brassbound Pentagon, there are more admirals than ensigns, more generals than second lieutenants.
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Taisin had taken out her small brassbound trunk and opened it, but now she paused with her hand on a glass vial.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.