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adjective braʃbræʃ 1Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way. he was brash, cocky, and arrogant Example sentencesExamples - For me, Australians are too brash, too cocky, too shallow and too plentiful.
- I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
- ‘Being confident does not mean being brash and aggressive; it means being politely assertive,’ she opines.
- The struggling scriptwriter is caught in the middle of this dispute, while his pretty wife falls increasingly into the arms of the brash producer.
- Maybe it's time we dropped the charade and accepted that we're as brash and pushy as any New York cabbie ever was.
- In his native England, he's earned himself a reputation for being brash and arrogant, but he was sincerely bewildered and grateful at the big turn-out for their first Canadian show.
- Carl was now fully enraged with the audacity of the brash detective.
- She was portrayed as a bit of a lad, very brash, by music journalists, but really she is very quietly spoken, doesn't shoot her mouth off, very intelligent and - she'll hate me for saying this - just very nice.
- This dramatic comedy from 1942 plays off the match of polar opposites, the brash sports reporter Craig and the brilliant political commentator Hepburn.
- They come across as quite brash at first, but I soon realised they were vulnerable young men with their hearts set on high-flying football careers.
- They were loud, brash, and obnoxious, and Tanj couldn't imagine how they'd been admitted to the auction.
- Some teenagers are rude, brash and nasty; some are not.
- Americans love a winner, and after years of muted reactions from fans and media alike here, the sisters have finally gone from being brash upstarts to all-American champions in the public imagination.
- A noisy, brash American, he never knew he was beaten and gave absolutely everything on every point of every game, no matter how apparently hopeless the cause.
- It may be simply because they were all similar to the profile of corrupt officers that I've seen in the past, who seem to be invariably brash and arrogant and have an interest in gambling and hard living.
- She was brash and bold and unafraid of rubbing people the wrong way, so he knew that even if he thought she should leave him alone, she wouldn't, and that was what he needed.
- Edwards has been accused in the past of being too brash, arrogant, and selfish, but has made an effort to be more mature and team-oriented.
- Quite funny how this brash and loud student totally changed when he got to meet his hero and started acting all bashful.
- I had this idea of him being loud and brash when in fact he's laid back and quiet with this fantastic wit.
- You may lie on the beach cursing the brash, noisy idiots who zoom up and down the coast disturbing your hangover.
Synonyms self-assertive, assertive, cocksure, full of oneself, self-confident, arrogant, thrusting, bold, as bold as brass, audacious, brazen, brazen-faced forward, impudent, insolent, impertinent, rude, cheeky informal cocky, pushy, brassy - 1.1 Having an ostentatious or tasteless appearance.
the cafe was a brash new building Example sentencesExamples - A brash modern building, it may not have the atmosphere of the Art Nouveau building next door, but it creates its own style with high balconies surrounding the lobby covered in lush greenery.
- The piano was transformed from gentle intimacy to huge, brash vulgarity.
- The city is bright, brash, and expensive both to those who have to live here and those who come to visit.
- It was like any other Mediterranean metropolis: loud, brash and hot.
- It's quite brash and flashy, so I'm sure it will be worth exploring.
- I'm especially partial to looking at the buildings which hover above the brash and uniform shop fronts in most British town centres - like looking through someone's drawers, you get an insight to the true character of a place.
- The combination of garish cartoon colours and brash graphic quality is totally euphoric.
- The exposed white appears in a brash yellow field, a pale blue sky and the hide of a large gray cow, unifying the painting, which burns like a summer's high noon.
- Usually, Sydney is rude, brash, and tarty: the New York of the Southern Hemisphere.
- The inspector said in his report that, while not ideal, the colour scheme and lettering on the pub sign were not so unsympathetic or brash as to reduce the special interest of the listed building as a whole.
- Paris is mostly familiar to Shanghainese from the movies, no doubt appearing sophisticated and genteel in comparison to the brash cityscape mushrooming around them.
- It is an image that is brash, arrogant, ruthless, cold and heartless.
- Visually, it's an astonishing piece of adrenaline-fuelled cinema at its brash, flashy best.
- We might want to live in one we could justifiably call old, or quaint, modern, or minimalist, but we might feel less enthusiastic once we had come to think of the same property as decrepit, poky, brash, or bleak.
- Billboards advertising assorted Americana jostle for position with US-style shopping malls and brash, brutalist hotels.
- Then, in late winter or early spring, clusters of brash, bright purple flowers appear: I just know that if they came at any other time of the year, I would hate them!
- Critics say it's tacky, noisy, and stuck in a time warp, those of us who love it agree with all that, that's what it's all about, being big, brash, gaudy and over the top.
- ‘They’ are political advertisements, noisy, brash things that permeate the landscape every election cycle.
Synonyms garish, gaudy, loud, over-bright, ostentatious, showy, flamboyant, flashy, vulgar, tasteless, tawdry informal tacky North American informal bling-bling
Derivatives adverb ˈbraʃliˈbræʃli The ‘long-tail effect’, currently making waves from broadcasting to bookselling, is one of those suddenly ubiquitous notions brashly promising a revolution in consumer capitalism. Example sentencesExamples - The overall result, to put it rather brashly in terms of the bottom line, is that South African taxpayers are getting more for their money, of the sort of applied social research that the country's development needs.
- It was a few years later that the decorated building made a last brave stand, Art Deco's Egyptian colonnades and Moderne sunbursts sparkling brashly among dimmer stripped-classical and early modern façades.
- In the 1950s, he brashly challenged psychologist B. F. Skinner's theory of language as a learned skill, acquired by children in a process of reward and punishment.
- These guys have studied every clichéd turn of phrase, whiny affectation and hairdo, and the brashly '80s programming doesn't shuffle the deck enough to hide their derived, contrived strategy.
nounˈbraʃnəsˈbræʃnəs I love New York for the very qualities of bigness, boldness, and brashness that some seem to despise. Example sentencesExamples - The politeness of the elderly was in marked contrast to the freshness, sometimes brashness, often deliberate, of the young, seen even in their responses to the questionnaire.
- While most teachers disliked Rebecca quite strongly for her sharp tongue and offensive brashness, Mr. Lively found it entertaining, and she had quickly become one of his favorite pupils.
- The tree is typically Carioca in its brashness and audacity, but despite the city's fondness for it, Rio is not famed for its yuletide.
- For I have realized that it is the city's very boldness and brashness that clearly identifies it as truly Chinese.
Origin Early 19th century (originally dialect); perhaps a form of rash1. Rhymes abash, ash, Ashe, bash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash noun braʃbræʃ mass noun1Loose broken rock or ice. Example sentencesExamples - After two days of being locked in by brash ice at Spring Point, we're finally on the move again.
- A brash ice jam in the South Channel of the St. Clair River was profiled in February 1987 using a helicopter-borne short-pulse radar operating in the UHF band near 500 MHz.
- A subsurface impulse radar system on board a cutter was used to measure brash ice thickness in the Great Lakes.
- This image shows icebergs and brash ice along the shore of western Greenland.
- The report concludes that these antennas can be used to determine sheet ice thickness and to supply information to help in the detection of brash ice.
- During the same time, measurements of the brash ice depth and water temperature were made from a Coast Guard icebreaker.
2Clippings from hedges, shrubs, or other plants. cutting up the timber and burning the brash Example sentencesExamples - The amount of brash available can depend on a number of factors.
- The heather brash - heather which has been cut in the autumn and baled, loaded with seeds - is spread to create a mulch or microclimate, protecting the peat
- Brash retention alone appears unlikely to provide sufficient nutrition for optimum long-term tree growth on poorer sites.
- The spreading of heather brash has become a yearly task at the Marsden estate, near Huddersfield, to control erosion which is exacerbated by grazing and trampling.
- The operator raises them every 4-5 metres to release the gathered brash.
- Brash removal, particularly from nutrient poor sites, represents a substantial source of nutrients while its removal may also lead to soil acidification.
Origin Late 18th century: of unknown origin. adjectivebraSHbræʃ 1Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way. he could be brash, cocky, and arrogant Example sentencesExamples - A noisy, brash American, he never knew he was beaten and gave absolutely everything on every point of every game, no matter how apparently hopeless the cause.
- Some teenagers are rude, brash and nasty; some are not.
- For me, Australians are too brash, too cocky, too shallow and too plentiful.
- They come across as quite brash at first, but I soon realised they were vulnerable young men with their hearts set on high-flying football careers.
- Maybe it's time we dropped the charade and accepted that we're as brash and pushy as any New York cabbie ever was.
- She was brash and bold and unafraid of rubbing people the wrong way, so he knew that even if he thought she should leave him alone, she wouldn't, and that was what he needed.
- It may be simply because they were all similar to the profile of corrupt officers that I've seen in the past, who seem to be invariably brash and arrogant and have an interest in gambling and hard living.
- This dramatic comedy from 1942 plays off the match of polar opposites, the brash sports reporter Craig and the brilliant political commentator Hepburn.
- Edwards has been accused in the past of being too brash, arrogant, and selfish, but has made an effort to be more mature and team-oriented.
- I had this idea of him being loud and brash when in fact he's laid back and quiet with this fantastic wit.
- ‘Being confident does not mean being brash and aggressive; it means being politely assertive,’ she opines.
- Quite funny how this brash and loud student totally changed when he got to meet his hero and started acting all bashful.
- In his native England, he's earned himself a reputation for being brash and arrogant, but he was sincerely bewildered and grateful at the big turn-out for their first Canadian show.
- Carl was now fully enraged with the audacity of the brash detective.
- The struggling scriptwriter is caught in the middle of this dispute, while his pretty wife falls increasingly into the arms of the brash producer.
- I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
- Americans love a winner, and after years of muted reactions from fans and media alike here, the sisters have finally gone from being brash upstarts to all-American champions in the public imagination.
- They were loud, brash, and obnoxious, and Tanj couldn't imagine how they'd been admitted to the auction.
- She was portrayed as a bit of a lad, very brash, by music journalists, but really she is very quietly spoken, doesn't shoot her mouth off, very intelligent and - she'll hate me for saying this - just very nice.
- You may lie on the beach cursing the brash, noisy idiots who zoom up and down the coast disturbing your hangover.
Synonyms self-assertive, assertive, cocksure, full of oneself, self-confident, arrogant, thrusting, bold, as bold as brass, audacious, brazen, brazen-faced - 1.1 Strong, energetic, or irreverent.
I like brash, vibrant flavors Example sentencesExamples - Hanger steak is as good as the one in the Paris outpost, sinewy, briny, and full of brash flavor.
- The Central Line would be noisy, brash and speedy too with a bit of a split personality.
- His loud, brash speech the previous day was clearly a leader's speech in depth and breadth.
- How, after all, could they be blamed for their brash vulgarity, when wealth came to them so easily?
- Those who overcome their caution experience Johannesburg as a brash, vibrant fast-talking city which fancies itself as the continent's answer to New York.
- Allen does a fine job, from his first brash appearance to his last scene.
- Teenage lettuces are still young and brash, and that's when their flavor is best.
- Loud, brash and pacey, it's a live injection of pure pop and skilled songwriting.
- It was a loud, brash statement about the stupidity of war.
- It's been loud, brash and controversial, not to mention shrill, accusatory and inky.
- I hear voices, loud, brash voices that sound like metal being scraped on slate.
- Adrian pushed open the doors to the pit and a wave of loud and brash music filled their ears.
- New York City is synonymous with big, bold, brash gestures.
- Gentle is the word, and among a record full of brash, loud screams, this whisper comes across all the more successfully.
- From one scene to the next, you don't know whether to expect a tender reconciliation, a brash and vulgar insult, or a martial arts extravaganza.
- That, I fear, is the very same reason why so many oppose its expansion: all those undergraduates from elsewhere invading the city with their brash opinions and noisy pastimes.
- My attentions were interrupted when the conversation over at that long and prominent table became brash and joyfully loud.
- Some are bright and brash, with worldly flavors.
- I've come home, to next door still playing loud, brash music.
- It had taken time for people to come to terms with his admittedly loud, brash style.
- 1.2 (of a place or thing) having an ostentatious or tasteless appearance.
the cafe was a brash new building Example sentencesExamples - The exposed white appears in a brash yellow field, a pale blue sky and the hide of a large gray cow, unifying the painting, which burns like a summer's high noon.
- The combination of garish cartoon colours and brash graphic quality is totally euphoric.
- The city is bright, brash, and expensive both to those who have to live here and those who come to visit.
- It was like any other Mediterranean metropolis: loud, brash and hot.
- I'm especially partial to looking at the buildings which hover above the brash and uniform shop fronts in most British town centres - like looking through someone's drawers, you get an insight to the true character of a place.
- We might want to live in one we could justifiably call old, or quaint, modern, or minimalist, but we might feel less enthusiastic once we had come to think of the same property as decrepit, poky, brash, or bleak.
- The inspector said in his report that, while not ideal, the colour scheme and lettering on the pub sign were not so unsympathetic or brash as to reduce the special interest of the listed building as a whole.
- It is an image that is brash, arrogant, ruthless, cold and heartless.
- ‘They’ are political advertisements, noisy, brash things that permeate the landscape every election cycle.
- Billboards advertising assorted Americana jostle for position with US-style shopping malls and brash, brutalist hotels.
- It's quite brash and flashy, so I'm sure it will be worth exploring.
- Paris is mostly familiar to Shanghainese from the movies, no doubt appearing sophisticated and genteel in comparison to the brash cityscape mushrooming around them.
- Usually, Sydney is rude, brash, and tarty: the New York of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A brash modern building, it may not have the atmosphere of the Art Nouveau building next door, but it creates its own style with high balconies surrounding the lobby covered in lush greenery.
- The piano was transformed from gentle intimacy to huge, brash vulgarity.
- Then, in late winter or early spring, clusters of brash, bright purple flowers appear: I just know that if they came at any other time of the year, I would hate them!
- Visually, it's an astonishing piece of adrenaline-fuelled cinema at its brash, flashy best.
- Critics say it's tacky, noisy, and stuck in a time warp, those of us who love it agree with all that, that's what it's all about, being big, brash, gaudy and over the top.
Synonyms garish, gaudy, loud, over-bright, ostentatious, showy, flamboyant, flashy, vulgar, tasteless, tawdry
Origin Early 19th century (originally dialect); perhaps a form of rash. nounbraSHbræʃ Loose broken rock or ice. Example sentencesExamples - After two days of being locked in by brash ice at Spring Point, we're finally on the move again.
- During the same time, measurements of the brash ice depth and water temperature were made from a Coast Guard icebreaker.
- This image shows icebergs and brash ice along the shore of western Greenland.
- A brash ice jam in the South Channel of the St. Clair River was profiled in February 1987 using a helicopter-borne short-pulse radar operating in the UHF band near 500 MHz.
- A subsurface impulse radar system on board a cutter was used to measure brash ice thickness in the Great Lakes.
- The report concludes that these antennas can be used to determine sheet ice thickness and to supply information to help in the detection of brash ice.
Origin Late 18th century: of unknown origin. |