brashness

[ UK /bɹˈæʃnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹæʃnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trait of being rash and hasty
  2. tasteless showiness
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How To Use brashness In A Sentence

  • Confident to the point of brashness, intelligent and quick-witted - all key attributes for an MC - he's a product of his surroundings.
  • His performance is extraordinarily multifaceted, combining American brashness with a creepy, lethal mysteriousness.
  • The politeness of the elderly was in marked contrast to the freshness, sometimes brashness, often deliberate, of the young, seen even in their responses to the questionnaire.
  • He contrasted her brashness unfavourably with his mother's gentleness.
  • Stuck in Troy's apartment and unwilling to face the brashness of Broadway on a snowy February night in the heart of Manhattan, I instead surfed the internet and trawled through New York City's real estate turnover.
  • While most teachers disliked Rebecca quite strongly for her sharp tongue and offensive brashness, Mr. Lively found it entertaining, and she had quickly become one of his favorite pupils.
  • Although one hears in the symphony's first and third movements the now-familiar brashness and "muscularity" with which Schuman would always be identified, his compositional approach toward the second movement was different, though he had also used it in the chorale in Part II of the Third Symphony. NewMusicBox
  • He is famously modest and well behaved, especially for an athlete from a country that has made a national virtue out of what is politely called "brashness" -- he claims, in fact, not even to keep track of how many world records he holds. Firing The Thorpedo
  • And the sight never failed to fill you with excitement that soon you would be caught up by the city's noise, energy, brashness, ebullience, smartness and wit.
  • I like the brashness of youth, particularly when counterpointed by the underlying futility of it all.…
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