"brassy" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is primarily used as an adjective to describe someone with a loud, bold, and often unpleasant manner or sound. Example sentence: She had a brassy voice that was loud and off-putting.
After scoring with hits like Red High Heels and Best Days of Your Life, Pickler left behind her standard pop-country sounds and has evolved into a brassy traditionalist with a highly critically acclaimed album in 100 Proof, which unfortunately sold poorly.
All the church bells toll in brassy harmony now.
Created by George Kovtun, whose only other choreographic credit was an obscure ballet version of Rasputin, the production was perhaps a little on the brassy side – the gladiators looked like the denizens of a leather bar, the women mostly played whores and the premiere featured live tigers – but it succeeded in making the ballet world sit up and take notice.
The fact that two of the planet's biggest artists were parachuted in to relaunch Jessie's career with this brassy shout-off provides a tantalising glimpse into record label confidence in Jessie J's solo appeal.
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was once a brassy, cosmopolitan city where notionally Shia Muslim Azeris rubbed shoulders with Jews as well as Armenians and ethnic Russians of loosely Christian heritage.
These bright and brassy young women found themselves in a world where, as they recalled in Oslo, you had to "work 16 hours a day and wash once a week" under the hostile glare of guards who tried to humiliate prisoners by forcing them to harm or inform on one another.
Ms Kessler-Harris argues that it may have something to do with the fact that she was a brassy, unattractive and sexually voracious woman who reaped commercial success from "middlebrow" work.Hellman hardly helped matters by claiming her own moral superiority.
A new liberal force could provide fresh answers to the country's increasingly difficult economic plight (see article).Novo's brassy brand of liberalism is still a minority taste.
"Corpsing" is a street-smart and brassy thriller that grips you from bitter beginning to bitter end.Another terrific whydunit is Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn".
But a new drama based on neurology, which is playing in both Paris and London, shows that his dramatic vision remains as clear-sighted as ever.Mr Brook made his name in London, in a post-war West End dominated by brassy, commercial productions intended to cheer people up.
The European Union alone wasted $55 billion last year on a common agricultural policy designed to keep food expensive for its consumers.How to spend itLast year, this newspaper supported a brassy but revealing initiative, dubbed the Copenhagen Consensus, to set priorities for aid (see articles).
