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Definition
bold or self-confident in a manner that seems disrespectful or tasteless
- A former stewardess, Barbara Wiggin was a brash, backslapping redhead; Mr. Wiggin called her "Barb," which was how she introduced herself in various charity-inspired phone calls.p. 118.1
- Among the older members of the congregation—with whom the jocular Captain Wiggin and his brash wife were not an overnight success—there was a stewing anger, apparent in their frowns and scowls, as if the shameful pageant they had just witnessed were the rector's idea of something "modern."p. 232.2
There are no more uses of "brash" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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