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Adjective: brassy (brassier,brassiest)  brã-see
  1. [informal] Tastelessly showy
    "a brassy car";
    - cheap, flash [informal], flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky [informal], tatty [informal], tawdry, trashy
     
  2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety
    - audacious, barefaced, bodacious [N. Amer, informal], bald-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
     
  3. Resembling the sound of a brass instrument
    - brasslike

Sounds like: brassie

Derived forms: brassier, brassiest

See also: tasteless, unashamed

Encyclopedia: Brassy, Somme