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brashly, adv. orig. U.S.|ˈbræʃlɪ| [f. brash a.2] In a brash manner.
1865‘Mark Twain’ Sk. Sixties (1926) 179, I mixed into this business a little too brashly—so to speak—and without due reflection. 1884Mexican Let. in Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., Aug., This department of business that started off so brashly has played out. 1949Here & Now Oct. 11/3 A brashly self-confident member of an Opposition which had had the confidence largely knocked out of it. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid v. 104 What that exhibitionist yonder So brashly relies on. 1957‘E. Ferrars’ Furnished for Murder iii. 25 An energetic, rather brashly handsome woman. |