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brash

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Brash \Brash\ (br[a^]sh), a. [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.] Hasty in temper; impetuous. --Grose.

Usage examples of brash.

Spoiled outrageously, Morgan, who had inherited the reckless Markland courage, all the arrogance and belligerence of the clan, had early demonstrated brash young scorn for many of the principles of honor, trustworthiness, generosity and forbearance that went with it.

Brash Young American, Melrose thought she was more a play of light and shadow.

Cheerful greetings from the other reporters, delivered in accents as diverse as brash Brooklynese and a Charleston drawl, helped dissipate them.

From a stoic swamp Yankee to a reserved federal agent to a brash aspiring criminologist, who obviously knew her own mind.

Marie Brasher is the local Homecoming Queen and seems perfectly normal.

But no one dared peek inside, not even the youngest, brashest men-at-arms.

By the time the biscop arrived, flanked by stewards carrying handsome ceramic lamps, the battle lines had been drawn: the servingwomen huddled in the pallet, all chattering accusations so loudly that Hanna thought she would go deaf, the steward and servants off to one side, licking their wounds, and Lord Wichman and his pack of wormy dogsa dozen scarred, cocky, brash young noblemenstanding defiantly by the smoldering hearth.

He had a broad, brash smile and wavy blond hair and a soft accent that lengthened vowels and slurred final consonants.

It took Alain that long to recognize him as Heric, the brash young soldier of midsummer.

He parted his lips, and felt her fingers brash against his mustache, then move on to touch his teeth, his tongue.

In a showdown between a brash youth and a cautious veteran, youth won out.

Some have been brash, some sly, some foolish, though none, I think, so innocent and so stupid as you, my doves.

Even though he had ten years on the brash young horseman, who was probably not yet thirty, Mourtzouphlos was native-born, which more than canceled the advantage of age.

It was hinted that a bright and brash young man was needed for rapid promotion to a command of real authority and Tarrant guessed that the Cag was being weighed as an eventual task force commander.

Occasionally someone brash would ask if Celia would help him try the product out.