brassy
adjective
made of or covered with brass.
brassily
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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
Then rapidly as it had formed, the picture faded and the two awe-struck watchers stood gazing at the frost spicules that glittered brassily in the unwholesome light of the false suns.
From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
