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

Mr. Gabler similarly wonders whether people’s objections to Ms. Streisand’s forays into politics were really a reaction to her so-called brassiness.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2016

And studying the fellow's countenance, he decided that, despite its brassiness and simple cunning, it was scarcely the countenance of a rascal.

From The Regent by Bennett, Arnold