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Brazenness   /brˈeɪzənəs/   Listen
Brazenness

noun
1.
Behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame.  Synonym: shamelessness.






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"Brazenness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gompers has combined a fearlessness that sometimes verges on brazenness. He has never hesitated to enter a contest when it seemed prudent to him to do so. He crossed swords with Theodore Roosevelt on more than one occasion and with President Eliot of Harvard in a historic newspaper controversy over trade union exclusiveness. ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

... which, willy-nilly, she was crowding me. I had trailed her here, she assumed, to thrust my company on her; and, upon the surface, I had to own that my behavior really had that air. If I had followed her with equal brazenness along Fifth Avenue, I should have had a chance to explain my conduct to the first police officer who noticed it, later to an indignant magistrate. But, heavens and earth! She knew why I had come. And knowing, how did she dare defy me? I retained just sufficient presence of mind to stare back impassively ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... cut in imitation of "the latest." Your first impulse, perhaps, is to scorn her as a "brazen" creature of the streets; but if you will suspend judgment and look a little closer, you may see that her eyes are, in their depths, those of a child, for all her seeming experience. Her brazenness is perhaps only the armor which she has donned to hide a turbulent heart—the dowry of centuries of grandmothers who longed for one glimpse of freedom; of the right to comb their hair as they liked; to powder their faces if they wanted to; to run and jump and laugh and dance and ...
— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad

... to lofty purpose and holy deeds! Paul says, If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." We all know why. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind ...
— Addresses • Henry Drummond



Words linked to "Brazenness" :   daring, hardiness, boldness, hardihood, brazen



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