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
She wasn't exactly brazen-faced when she told me, Aunt Olga.
From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)
Upon my saul, sir, ye’re a brazen-faced man that durst say it to my face!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
And he has the brazen-faced assurance to say, that the first image he had of Almanzor, in the "Conquest of Grenada," was from the Achilles of Homer!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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)
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