(a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
(a.) Impudent; impudently bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not like Sheffield and Leeds, which can be outgoing and brassy."
(2) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(3) But its gleaming presence might not be quite so well received there, given that their budgets and opening hours have been cut just as this brassy behemoth opens its doors.
(4) Islamkhan was also on the ugly end of a clothesline to the throat from Bartosz Kapustka, after which Kamil Glik received a yellow card for encouraging the Kazahkstan skipper to get up by nudging him with his boot, while talking to the referee: a brassy move and no mistake.
(5) Actor Simon Pegg, who starred with Bellingham in Faith in the Future, said: “Lynda Bellingham, a gorgeous, brassy, funny, generous, talented human being.
(6) For every brassy political satire ( A Short Sharp Shock , 1980, with Tony Howard) there is a passionate study of romantic love ( In Extremis , 2006); for every incendiary tract on religious intolerance ( Iranian Nights , 1989, with Tariq Ali) there is a thoughtful examination of the nature of belief ( Paul , 2005).
(7) It’s not like this in real life – but how would you know?” Undeterred by protests about his infringement of copyright, Trump uses Jerry Goldsmith’s embattled but rousingly brassy music from the film to underscore his campaign appearances, and when he arrived in Cleveland for the Republican convention in July he was greeted by the fanfares that accompany Ford’s gung-ho bouts of fisticuffs with the hijackers.
(8) Also, mutant males cannot exhibit the brassy display coloration used by wild-type males in mating and aggressive encounters.
(9) Bacterial tracheitis is the term used to describe a severe infraglottic infection characterized by toxicity, brassy cough, inspiratory stridor, subglottic oedema and the presence of copious mucopurulent secretions in the trachea.
(10) One of the songs we hear is magnificent, a brassy, blaring song featuring both Redman and Cher (“She took Dirty’s place,” smiles RZA afterwards).
(11) It gives girls self-loathing and eating disorders or, alternatively, brassy bossiness and a belief they can change the world.
(12) The brassy Sitek brass of BE tracks such as Second Bite of the Apple power the set along, and when things begin to lull, during an inadvisable space rock wig-out, Liam unleashes a couple of Oasis songs: Rock'n'roll Star (dedicated to sons Lennon and Gene) is as menacing as the clouds circling the stage, and produces the excellent ad lib: "I'm a rock'n'roll star … at 11.30 in the fucking morning!"
Meretricious
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
(a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the hangover of a meretricious general election.
(2) Hugh Trevor-Roper denounced it as this "meretricious, misleading work".
(3) To pretend otherwise is self-indulgent and meretricious.
(4) The campaign against next week's election of police commissioners is meretricious.
(5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(6) Of course, even thinking in these crude competitive "scoresheet" terms is a very un-Serious thing to be doing, and the admirers of 12 Years a Slave may have a sinking feeling that it will not be properly rewarded in the tinselly, meretricious, un-Serious Oscar world.
(7) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
(8) Almost like the protagonist of a Victorian novel, Sharif was overtaken by his own success, to the extent that in order to service the debts incurred by gambling and a playboy lifestyle, he was thrown back on accepting any work that came his way, and entered a downward spiral into trivial and meretricious movies.
(9) Churchill's grandson, the Conservative MP Winston Churchill , wrote to Armstong worried that "my grandfather's wartime diary appears to have fallen into the hands of this meretricious historian, David Irving."
(10) Novels that sparkled in the summer sun will seem flashy and meretricious in the sober light of autumn.