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Synonyms for brashness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : brash |
| Phonetic Transcription : bræʃ |
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Définition of brashness
Origin :- 1824, of obscure origin, originally American English; perhaps akin to 16c. Scottish brash "attack, assault," or French breche "fragments," especially of ice, from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German brehha "breach," from brehhan "to break"), or to German brechen "to vomit."
- noun impudence
- noun temerity
- Curiosity had gotten him in, brashness and speed had taken him out.
- Extract from : « Planet of the Damned » by Harry Harrison
- She's a woman, fer all her brashness in her callin' herself a man.
- Extract from : « A Pagan of the Hills » by Charles Neville Buck
- Springing up, he caught her hand and made to kiss her in the brashness of impulse.
- Extract from : « The Last Shot » by Frederick Palmer
- "That is a bargain," he said, with a brashness simply disgraceful in a good business man.
- Extract from : « The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him » by Paul Leicester Ford
Antonyms for brashness
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