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Bald-faced

adjective

(of animals) having white markings on the face.

Unrestrained by convention or propriety. Synonyms: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent. "A barefaced hypocrite" , "The most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim" , "Bald-faced lies" , "Brazen arrogance" , "The modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"

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"Bald-faced" Quotes from Famous Books

... more fools than farthingales, and more braggarts than beards, in this good land of ours. A bald-faced impertinent! it should cost the grand inquisitor a month's hard study to invent a punishment for him. This pretty morsel! Hark thee, wench; I'll render his love-billet to thine ear. ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby

... to give the reader an idea of the whim of Borrow’s conversation, by giving it in something like a dramatic form. Let the reader suppose himself on a summer’s evening at that delightful old roadside inn the Bald-Faced Stag, in the Roehampton Valley, near Richmond Park, where are sitting, over a “cup” (to use Borrow’s word) of foaming ale, Lavengro himself, one of his oldest friends, and a new acquaintance, a certain student of ...

— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton

Words linked to "Bald-faced" : unashamed, faced