Sample Sentences for
brash
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brash as in:  brash behavior

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    My father was a volatile, extremely complicated person, possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities.  (source)
    brash = bold or self-confident in a manner that seems disrespectful or tasteless
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    Apparently Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.  (source)
    brash = bold and disrespectful
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    The brash iniquity of the proposal tempted and amused the chaplain for a second or two.  (source)
    brash = bold or self-confident in a manner that seems disrespectful or tasteless
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    When me and Jim heard that we didn't feel so brash as what we did before.  (source)
    brash = bold
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    I was rewarded for my brashness.  (source)
    brashness = offensive boldness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It was an institution for girls near my house, and the young ladies were faster, brasher, meaner and more prejudiced than any I had met at Lafayette County Training School.  (source)
    brasher = more offensively bold
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    Maybe Aunt May knew something, because Baden didn't come in brashly or, conversely, like he was trying to hide.†  (source)
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    He'd count them off on his fingers: America the brash savior, Britain, and Israel.†  (source)
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    The prince's eyes shone with amusement at her brashness but lingered a bit too long on her body.†  (source)
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    After I showed him how it was done, Brasher was even more impressed.†  (source)
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    P. D. asked this brashly, in complete contrast to his mild and meek manner with the officer.†  (source)
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    The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence.†  (source)
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    I have to admit that what I initially found attractive in Ted were precisely the things that made him different from my brothers and the Chinese boys I had dated: his brashness; the assuredness in which he asked for things and expected to get them; his opinionated manner; his angular face and lanky body; the thickness of his arms; the fact that his parents immigrated from Tarrytown, New York, not Tientsin, China.†  (source)
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