brassily
- a word derived from brassy.
Example Sentences
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Seen one way, the woman who once brassily led the charge toward a more progressive America has changed so much that her downfall marks progress of a different kind.
From Slate ● May 30, 2018
It comes from Bosker’s friend — and Sherpa — Morgan Harris, a precocious, brassily opinionated sommelier at New York’s Aureole.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
There's a heart-stopping moment when May spurns the departing Tom's kisses while you hear the brassily cheery music of the boys' brigade off stage.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
It's touchingly effective, and much tauter and less brassily assertive than the 40-minute Metamorphic Variations, which Bliss completed in 1972, three years before his death.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2010
That suitcase had an air of solid finality about it, and its lock leered at me brassily.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
