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not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards
- a person of brassbound honesty
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tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
- the brassbound military leadership had failed to realize that this time the nation was fighting a different kind of war
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displaying or marked by rude boldness
- some brassbound upstart who thought that he could waltz in here and start issuing orders
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“Brassbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brassbound. Accessed 19 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of brassbound was in 1673
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