brassbound
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Star of the serial is brassbound Mickey Rooney.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the brassbound Pentagon, there are more admirals than ensigns, more generals than second lieutenants.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The yellowish, brassbound trunk not only moved�it talked.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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