All 3 Uses of
brash
in
Into the Wild
- Astoundingly, the eighty-one-year-old man took the brash twenty-four-year-old vagabonds advice to heart.
p. 58..5brash = bold or self-confident in a manner that seems disrespectful or tasteless
- My father was a volatile, extremely complicated person, possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities.
p. 147..5 *
- These days Roman teaches at Alaska Pacific University, in Anchorage, and enjoys statewide renown for a long, brash string of backcountry escapades: He has, among other feats, traveled the entire 1,000-mile length of the Brooks Range by foot and paddle, skied 250 miles across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in subzero winter cold, traversed the 700-mile crest of the Alaska Range, and pioneered more than thirty first ascents of northern peaks and crags.
p. 185..4
Definition:
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(brash as in: brash behavior) bold or self-confident in a manner that seems disrespectful or tasteless