brazen-faced

[ brey-zuhn-feyst ]

adjective

1. openly shameless; impudent.

brazen-faced

adjective

1. shameless or impudent

Other Words From

• bra·zen-fac·ed·ly [brey, -z, uh, n-fey-sid-lee, -feyst-], adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of brazen-faced¹

First recorded in 1565–75

Example Sentences

Why the Hotel Bellevue hadnt any shade-trees in front; why it was so glaringly hot and dusty and brazen-faced, we didnt see.

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That brazen-faced hussy who calls herself Lady Clarinda is married, and she sends him nosegays three times a week!

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I haven't the patience to work at it as those foreign women do: a parcel of brazen-faced Jezebels—I hate them!

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If he didn't deserve it, you ought to be bastinadoed; and, if he did, he's brazen-faced enough.

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Indignant women, forgetting the softness of sex, had arisen in just wrath to execute this brazen-faced apostle of mammon.

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