brassier
- comparative of brassy.
Example Sentences
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Wearing gold lamé pants or a gauzy floor-length cape, she would introduce herself as “a shy, innocent petite flower” before revealing another, brassier side of her personality.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 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
The brass are brassier, and the woodwinds blow through mysterious Finnish forests — but also have the cheery flavor of delicious small Finnish summer strawberries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2016
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 Jenkins, Herbert George
