All 4 Uses of
brazen
in
Great Expectations
- They were all displayed in that chamber of the Castle into which I had been first inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room but as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.†
Chpt 25
- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."†
Chpt 31
- I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.†
Chpt 52 *
- But, it was only the pleasanter to turn to Biddy and to Joe, whose great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, contrasted with this brazen pretender.†
Chpt 58
Definition:
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(brazen) unrestrained by convention or propriety