brash
IPA: brˈæʃ
noun
- A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
- A sudden burst of rain.
- (obsolete) An attack or assault.
- Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
- (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
- Broken fragments of ice.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To disturb.
adjective
- (of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
- (of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
- (of things) Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
- (US, colloquial, dated) Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).
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Examples of "brash" in Sentences
- Your language was brash and insulting.
- Brash claims that the emails were stolen.
- I think the following is quite rude and brash.
- A brash, incompetent Commander in the Imperial Army.
- Ostentatious living or brash manners bored and repelled him.
- Brash again failed to win the seat at the general election of 1981.
- He appears brash, arrogant and short tempered early on in the story.
- Brash, however, set to work improving the quality of the operations.
- While Elphaba is spunky and brash, Nessarose is reserved and decorous.
- A master of expressionist painting, Mohr latched on to the brash and angular.
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