brazen-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- brazen-facedly adverb
Etymology
Origin of brazen-faced
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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"How brazen-faced can a man be?" fumed Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament.
From Time Magazine Archive
And this totally shameless and brazen-faced humbug flourished in New York for twenty-five years!
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
The brazen-faced maids in the house accosted her as one of their own kind.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de
Impudent, im′pū-dent, adj. wanting shame or modesty: brazen-faced: bold: rude: insolent.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
They naturally became each day more lazy and dissolute; and little Julia more bold and brazen-faced.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
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