brassy
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She was joined in the top 10 by another U.K. singer, Raye, who favors swank Sixties outfits and has a brassy hit called “Where Is My Husband!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The story’s sassy, brassy antihero has likewise adorned Christmas trees and school library shelves for generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
The star, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was competing with himself for song and record of the year, as the brassy “Baile Inolvidable” and the mournful “DTMF” were nominated in both categories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
We interviewed him at Gardena Cinema about ‘Anora,’ his brassy romantic comedy that should be a breakout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
When he’d finally had his fill, he took Joyce’s hand and pulled her back out onto the deck where the band was again playing loud, brassy dance tunes.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Simone Thiou de la Chaume, 15, petite Parisian prodigy, smacked her drives, whacked her brassies, cracked her irons, popped her putts in, won the British Girls' Golf Championship, was hailed "Lenglen of the Links."
From Time Magazine Archive
The greater elaboration of such brassies as we had seen impressed us, and we also found some trouble with our oak heads in that, being green, they were rather inclined to chip and crack.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
Both used brassies and both were short of the green.
From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan
Drivers and brassies vary a little, cleeks and irons differ much, but mashies are more unlike each other than any of them.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
As a rule I need a fair drive and two screaming brassies on this long fifth before I am in position to approach across the ravine.
From Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford
As a host, Ratajkowski has a gentler presence than the brassier personalities — Cooper, Joe Rogan, Dax Shepard — that currently rule the podcast charts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Soft-spoken and diffident, Biggie gets lost within the pages of “It Was All a Dream,” upstaged by more purpose-driven or brassier peers, including fellow rapper and early career mentor Tupac Shakur.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
Once they graduated to the line, they adopted the brassier, saltier argot that cooking in conditions of extreme heat and pressure seemed to require.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
As a 1959 Broadway show, it was already an anachronism, surrounded by the brassier, more urgent West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiorello!
From Time ● Mar. 2, 2015
The cornet could be heard approaching nearer and nearer becoming brassier and brassier.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
He goes on to sketch his brassiest teenage move of all — picking up the phone one day in 1999 and calling Walter Alvarez at the University of California at Berkeley.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2018
What’s life like for those who reach for the brassiest of brass rings—the American presidency—and miss?
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2012
American's George Washington Hill, the brassiest to-baccoon of all time, dreamed up the slogan "It's toasted" for Lucky Strike—even though all tobacco went through the same toasting process.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big Bill the Builder, brassiest showman out of show business, had taken the stump once more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mike stuck out his tongue and blew the longest, loudest, brassiest and juiciest Bronx cheer that Malone had ever heard.
From Out Like a Light by Kelly Freas
