brassiness
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Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Caroline Flack was adored and attacked for many of the same reasons: her brassiness, her autonomy when it came to personal decision-making, a sense of fight that kept her from taking criticism lying down.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
How boring the world would be if all the Beccas were shamed into hiding by people who think brassiness is just a failure of breeding and taste.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2018
Temple's brassiness, her infectious good spirits and spunky optimism enchanted viewers, creating a cult of personality that began in the Great Depression and has never gone away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
Swinburne, on the other hand, can hardly find words strong enough to express his contempt for the "blare and brassiness" of Byron; but that also is an exaggeration.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
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