1
: brittle
brash wood
2
3
a
: full of fresh raw vitality
a brash frontier town
b
: uninhibitedly energetic or demonstrative (see demonstrative entry 1 sense 3) : bumptious
a brash comedian
4
5
: piercingly sharp : harsh
a brash squeal of brakes
6
: marked by vivid contrast : bold
brash colors
brashly
adverb
brashness
noun
: a mass of fragments (as of ice)
Synonyms
Examples of brash in a Sentence
Adjective
She asks such brash questions.
a brash request to get something for free
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Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Pay gains have slowed considerably since March 2022, a reflection of a rebalancing of supply and demand in the labor market following the pandemic as well as the impacts from the Federal Reserve’s brash increase in interest rates to rein in high inflation.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
But in part because of his previous reputation as a dove, Mr. Kishida has so far pushed the envelope further while encountering less resistance than Abe’s sometimes brash approaches.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
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Adjective
After public outrage quashed a brash attempt by Congress to increase member pay by 51% in early 1989, a more modest hike of 10% was passed through The Ethics Reform Act of 1989, signed into law by President George Bush on Nov. 30, 1989.
—Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Pay gains have slowed considerably since March 2022, a reflection of a rebalancing of supply and demand in the labor market following the pandemic as well as the impacts from the Federal Reserve’s brash increase in interest rates to rein in high inflation.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
The brash ’80s, referenced by Piccioli at Valentino and Alexandre Vauthier, who paid homage to the elegance of Grace Jones , felt more immediate and relevant.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
But in part because of his previous reputation as a dove, Mr. Kishida has so far pushed the envelope further while encountering less resistance than Abe’s sometimes brash approaches.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
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“Brash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brash. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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brash
noun1
: an attack of illness
especially
: a short severe illness
2
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