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Brazen-faced   /brˈeɪzən-feɪst/   Listen
Brazen-faced

adjective
1.
Unrestrained by convention or propriety.  Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, 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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"Brazen-faced" Quotes from Famous Books



... to know the Empire of the East from the Empire of the West, and would not care which was which if they did know, and the still wiser young men who spend the long summer days lying on their backs in their own canoes, reading Mark Twain. Oh! she is a brazen-faced impostor. 'Molasses!' and 'Great Scott!' are not enough to say to her. I should like to try her with the final polite remarks of the last ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

... (several hundreds of them), so much admired, was nothing more nor less than a SHEEP! How the jolterheaded ideots could ever look each other in the face again, and have the audacity to prate about their proficiency in agriculture, must surprise all those who are unacquainted with their brazen-faced, hardened impudence. ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt

... shocked by the sight of waltzing, which he would not have suffered the Guiccioli, while she was in his keeping, to have indulged in even with her own husband. Thus it is that sinners see sin only where it is not—and shut their eyes to it when it comes upon them open-armed, bare-bosomed, and brazen-faced, and clutches them in a grasp more like the hug of a bear than the embrace of a woman. Away with such mawkish modesty and mouthing morality—for 'tis the slang of the hypocrite. Waltzing does our old eyes good to look on it, when the whole Circling Flight goes ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson



Words linked to "Brazen-faced" :   unashamed



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